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God Collapses: Theism and Moral Responsibility de Stephen Kershnar

God Collapses: Theism and Moral Responsibility: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion

Autor Stephen Kershnar, Nathan Bray
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2026
Many worldviews assume that God exists and is the greatest possible being. Religious traditions, philosophical arguments, and billions of believers hold that God is perfectly good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. This book argues that this worldview is false. It provides four arguments for this conclusion that build on the philosophy of religion and moral responsibility literatures in original and insightful ways:
Impossibility: God is not responsible because responsibility itself is impossible. No one—including God—can satisfy the conditions necessary for moral responsibility.
Compulsion: God is not responsible because his perfect nature compels his choices. A being whose psychology necessarily determines his actions cannot be responsible for them.
Arbitrariness: God is not responsible because his choices would be arbitrary. No one is responsible for making arbitrary choices, even if those choices are between good options.
Maximal Greatness: If God lacks responsibility, then his greatness depends on being uniquely and maximally benevolent, but no one can satisfy this requirement.
There is no other book that argues against God's existence by systematically examining whether God can be morally responsible and showing how these arguments undermine the greatest possible being thesis. The book's arguments connecting divine psychology, foreknowledge, and responsibility are new to the literature. Ultimately, the book's conclusions challenge our understanding of God, morality, and the metaphysical structure of the universe.
God Collapses: Theism and Moral Responsibility is essential reading for scholars and graduate students in philosophy, religious studies, and theology who are interested in debates about divine attributes, moral responsibility, and arguments for atheism.
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ISBN-13: 9781041412984
ISBN-10: 1041412983
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 16
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Cuprins

Table of Contents 
Introduction 
Part One. If God exists, then he is the greatest possible being 
Chapter One: Greatness 
Chapter Two: Greatest Possible Being 
Chapter Three: Maximal Greatness and Responsibility 
Chapter Four: Greatness and Self-Explanation 
Part Two. The greatest possible being is not significantly responsible 
Chapter Five: Basic Responsibility-Maker 
Chapter Six: Blameworthiness 
Chapter Seven: Responsibility and Value 
Chapter Eight: God and Responsibility 
Chapter Nine: Divine Foreknowledge 
Chapter Ten: The Benevolence-Responsibility Tradeoff 
Part Three. The greatest possible being is not insignificantly responsible 
Chapter Eleven: Insignificant Responsibility 
Chapter Twelve: Universe Creation 
Part Four. The greatest possible being does not lack responsibility 
Chapter Thirteen: Arbitrary Benevolence 
Part Five: Conclusion 
Chapter Fourteen: Conclusion 
Part Six: Appendix: On the Best Possible World 
Index 
Bibliography 

Recenzii

“Stephen Kershnar and Nathan Bray join their mind and produce an exciting discussion about God’s existence. The book is a tour de force of relentless, careful argumentation.”
Carlo Alvaro, St. John’s University, USA

Notă biografică

Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is also an attorney. Kershnar focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. He has written more than one hundred articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as abortion, desert, moral responsibility, punishment, and religion. He is the author of twelve books, including Morality Collapses: Against the Right and the Good (New York: Routledge, 2025), Responsibility Collapses: Why Moral Responsibility is Impossible (New York: Routledge, 2023), and Desert Collapses: Why No One Deserves Anything (New York: Routledge, 2022). 
 
Nathan Bray is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews. He works mainly in Philosophy of Religion and Ethics. Within these fields, his favorite topics, in no particular order, are the cosmological argument, divine freedom, and animal ethics. His works have appeared in Public Affairs Quarterly and Between the Species. 

Descriere

This book argues against God's existence by examining whether God can be morally responsible. The book's arguments connect divine psychology, foreknowledge, and responsibility. Ultimately, the book's conclusions challenge our understanding of God, morality, and the metaphysical structure of the universe.