The Scandal of Reason or Shadow of God

By turning the classical arguments for God's existence on their head, David and Marjorie Haight present original arguments for the existence of the devil in order to reveal a cosmic God beyond Goddiness or the God beyond good and evil, which reconciles Divinity with its Shadow.

David F. Haight is Professor of Philosophy, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Preface

ix

Chapter One: The Devaluation of Being

1

(14)

I. First Impoverishment of Being

2

(1)

II. Second Impoverishment of Being

3

(1)

III. Third Impoverishment of Being

4

(6)

IV. Fourth Impoverishment of Being

10

(5)

Chapter Two: Conversation Between Anselm and the Fool

15

(18)

I. The Ontological Argument

15

(2)

II. Standard Objections and Replies

17

(2)

III. An Analogical Argument for the Devil

19

(4)

IV. Is Existence a Perfection?

23

(4)

V. The Circle of Faith

27

(1)

VI. Synopsis

28

(1)

VII. Appendix

29

(4)

Chapter Three: Devil Demonstrated Through Its Effects: Six Ways

33

(16)

I. Motion and Causality

33

(3)

II. Necessity, Contingency and Goodness

36

(4)

III. Demonic Teleology

40

(1)

IV. Are All Arguments for God Petitids

41

(5)

V. No Fool-Proof God-Proof Exists

46

(3)

Chapter Four. Dialogue Between Descartes and the Evil Genius

49

(22)

I. The Cartesian Circle

49

(3)

II. More Demon-strations

52

(6)

III. The Round Dance of Reason

58

(3)

IV. Are All Statements of Existence Contingent?

61

(3)

V. Infinity and Evil

64

(3)

VI. Conclusion

67

(4)

Chapter Five. The Problems of Evil and Time, or the Dialogue Continued Between Leibniz and the Evil Genius

71

(22)

I. The Question of Being

71

(3)

II. Being and Goodness

74

(1)

III. A Viable Theodicy

75

(4)

IV. A Problem with Future Contingent Statements

79

(3)

V. How to Continue the Dialogue?

82

(1)

VI. Hartshorne's Objection: A Brief Interlude

83

(6)

VII. Transition to the Shadow as Positive

89

(4)

Chapter Six: An Abolute Theory of Relativity

93

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I. A Meta-Physics of Consciousness

93

(4)

II. The Maya of Space/Time, That Which Both Is and Is Not

97

(7)

III. The Ages of the Ageless

104

(5)

IV. The Once and Future Vision

109

(6)

V. Quod superius sicut quod inferius: As Above, So Below

115

(15)

VI. Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth

130

(61)

Chapter Seven: Mathematics and the Good

191

(52)

I. Absolved or Purified Set-Theoretical Wholes

191

(6)

II. Set-Theoretical Reflection

197

(4)

III. Waiting for Godel

201

(2)

IV. Trans-Rational Thinking

203

(3)

V. Paradox Lust

206

(3)

VI. Infinite Substance is Inexhaustible

209

(2)

VII. Another Extended Footnote to Plato

211

(32)

Chapter Eight: Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?

243

(192)

I. The Law of Continuity

243

(15)

II. The Monadology

258

(12)

III. Materia Prima

270

(15)

IV. Pre-established Harmony

285

(25)

V. The Best of All Possible Worlds

310

(32)

VI. Immaculate Perception

342

(93)

Chapter Nine. The It from the Bit (Itty Bitty) Fallacy

435

(36)

I. The Labyrinth of the Continuum

435

(5)

II. Squaring the Circle

440

(5)

III. Method of Exhaustion or Convergence

445

(8)

IV. The Knotted Thread that Ties Up Loose Ends

453

(18)

Chapter Ten: Science is Not Without Presuppositions

471

(38)

I. Breaks in Spacetime or from Spacetime?

471

(10)

II. Living Space and Time

481

(5)

III. The Paradigm Paradigm

486

(6)

IV. Memory Re-membered, Not Dis-membered

492

(4)

V. Back to the Future

496

(13)

Chapter Eleven: The Revaluation of Being as Such

509

(38)

I. The Mystery of "Is" as Is

509

(2)

II. Mind-Body Mystery

511

(4)

III. Which Came First-the Computer or the Egghead?

515

(9)

IV. Are Computers Conscious?

524

(7)

V. "Nature," Aeschylus said, "is stronger than science."

531

(5)

VI. Meditative as Distinguished from Calculative or Objective Thinking

536

(5)

VII. Mysteries and Problems

541

(6)

Chapter Twelve: Surplus Meaning and Value

547

(21)

I. The Foundation of Analogy

547

(1)

II. The Divine or Golden Formula for Blending

548

(4)

III. Immediacy, or Participation, as the Final "Mediator"

552

(2)

IV. The Richness of Language

554

(3)

V. The Path is Laid Out for Us

557

(11)

Chapter Thirteen: The Good Beyond Good and Evil, Or the Transvaluation of Being

568

(13)

I. The Mystery of Good and Evil

568

(3)

II. "The Truth Shall Set You Free"

571

(5)

III. The Devil Revisited and Revised

576

(5)

Chapter Fourteen. Mirror, Mirror of the Fall

581

(16)

I. The Participation-Mystique of Good and Evil

581

(4)

II. The Mirror of Possibilities

585

(12)

Chapter Fifteen: Some Great Thing

597

(62)

I. A History of the Archetypal World

597

(7)

II. The Wheel of Life

604

(4)

III. The Apple of One's Eye

608

(5)

IV. The Tragic Sense of Life

613

(6)

V. Poetic Madness

619

(12)

VI. The Passion for Infinity

631

(9)

VII. The Inside-Outside Story

640

(19)

Selective Bibliography

659

(32)

Index

691

(20)

About the Authors

711

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