Free Ebook Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros
After completing this publication, you can take the final thought about just what type of publication this is exactly. You could not really feel regret to get and review it until ended up. Lots of people have actually confirmed it and also they love this publication so much. When they have read it currently, one comment concerning Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros is outstanding. So, how has to do with you? Have you began reading this publication? Complete it as well as make conclusion of it. Start it currently and right here.
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros
Free Ebook Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros
Adhering to the good habit will reveal the great routine, as well. When having a great friend that has analysis practice, it is required for you to have that such practice. Well, also reviewing is really not your style, why do not you try it as soon as? To attract you to love analysis, we will present Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros now. Below this publication has the tendency to be one of the most referred book that lots of people read it.
To earn you little bit fall in love to read, we will certainly offer the soft data of Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros to read. Formerly, you must get it by making handle the link of guide. This publication is type of favorite publication checked out by many individuals, from worldwide. When you intend to do such experiences, however you still do not have enough loan, reviewed a publication and also you can feel like being in your actual experience.
You could not need to be doubt about this Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros It is simple way to get this book Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros You could just see the distinguished with the link that we offer. Right here, you could buy guide Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros by on the internet. By downloading and install Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros, you could discover the soft data of this publication. This is the exact time for you to begin reading. Also this is not published publication Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros; it will exactly provide more benefits. Why? You could not bring the published publication Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros or only pile guide in your residence or the office.
Generating the skills and experiences of someone will certainly include how you have gotten the advantages as well as excellences of Who Designed The Designer?: A Rediscovered Path To God’s Existence, By Michael Augros You could not really feel baffled how you can get it. This is the soft data system of book that you could get as your alternative. In this problem, you need to support on your own to be a person better. It can be done by reading it slowly but certainly. Saving the soft data in gizmo as well as laptop computer tool will allow you open it all over.
Review
This is, quite simply, the single best book I have ever read on what most of us would regard as the single most important question of philosophy: Does God exist? On all counts this book gets an A+. It is an amazing achievement. It will inevitably become a classic. --Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Boston CollegeThough many sound books have been written about the ‘first cause/mover’ proof of Aristotle and St. Thomas, this is the most accessible and illustrative rendition I have encountered. His explanations make a heavy subject engaging and easy to read. It has outstanding pedagogical value. --Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D., Author, New Proofs for the Existence of GodMichael Augros is one of the smartest people I've met. His book is a very welcome and very needed contribution to the ongoing debate about the existence of God. An excellent step by step argument by one of the sharpest Thomists around. --Benjamin Wiker, Author, Answering the New Atheism
Read more
About the Author
Michael Augros holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College and teaches at Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California. He is the author of Who Designed the Designer? A Rediscovered Path to God's Existence and of numerous scholarly articles that have appeared in such journals as the Thomist, Angelicum, and the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly.
Read more
Product details
Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: Ignatius Press (April 30, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1586179691
ISBN-13: 978-1586179694
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 0.6 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
57 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#401,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Excellent, excellent presentation of one of the demonstrations for God's existence. This book comes at a critical time, when many have been taught that science and rational thought exclude the existence or even the possibility of God; the position has been cultivated so long that many seem to buy into it automatically. Dr. Augros treats of the subject masterfully, rendering the deductive argument into terms and examples that are readily accessible even to beginners in philosophy without sacrificing any of the rigor that the endeavor demands. He also exposes the fallacies of many (and I do mean 'many') objections of the "New Atheists" and others against the existence of God. If you have time for only one read on the question of God's existence and you're willing to give the case honest consideration, then this is the book to get.
Excellent book. I've read it twice since I got it a year ago: it was well worth reading both times. Some discussions are more difficult than others, of course. But the author does a very good job of going step by step through his argument, taking more time when more time is needed. I think most people rarely encounter this kind of step-by-step logical argumentation, so take your time and make sure you comprehend what's going on from one section to the next.Several of the (atheistic) reviewers seem actually to have not read the book at all, and don't want anybody else to read it either. Pay them no heed.I would suggest only one improvement. The book divides neatly into two parts between chapters 7 and 8. The first seven chapters are the step-by-step logical argumentation that provides certainty that there is one and only one first cause that is a simple, immortal, non-material intelligence. After that comes some more speculative ponderings and replies to certain common objections. It would have been helpful, therefore, to actually have the book divided into two or more parts; e.g. Part I comprising Chapters 1 through 7, and Part II comprising Chapters 8 through 10.The style of the book is very engaging, down-to-earth, and chock-full of good humor. I suspect that some people's knee-jerk objections are actually sparked by their emotional reaction to a "philosophical" book written this way.
I'm a scientist. When I interviewed Peter Kreeft a few weeks ago on my health podcast, he recommended this book above all relating to my questions. It didn't disappoint! It's sad how many scientists think God is incompatible with science when it's quite the opposite.
The best book I've read containing arguments for the existence of God., and since I was a philosophy graduate student many years ago I have looked at quite a few. Despite the profundity of the subject this is an easy book to read for anyone who will give it his attention.Unreservedly recommended.
I liked the book a lot, but, I in my opinion the author got tied-up with too many insignificant details supporting his philosophy and took quite a while to get to the point. It was if he was being paid by the word. I think he could have written an even more engaging book by getting to the point more quickly. That said, it is well worth the read.
Dr. Augros presents us with an amalgamated review of the Cosmological (first cause), Ontological (necessary being), and Teleological (purposeful) proofs of God's existence. In their original form they all claim to be proofs, but Augros does not make that claim for this book. He claims that from self-evident and easily accessible premises (all his examples are drawn from common human experience) one can validly deduce the necessity of a purposeful, necessary, first cause which has also the qualities of being simple, infinite actual (no unrealized potential), changeless, all-knowing (across all time), and good. His aim is to deduce all of this and calls it god (lowercase 'g') which he distinguishes from God (uppercase 'G') the latter having these same qualities plus (possibly) others as described in the holy books and articles of specific, Earthly, religious faiths. He notes explicitly that he cannot, nor is he trying, to deduce God in this sense, but only god. His underlying purpose is to demonstrate that the conviction that god is real is rational and need not proceed from some specific religious (institution) faith. God (god) is the necessary (though not necessarily the direct) source of everything that can be distinguished in the universe of our experience including the universe itself and the existence within it of minds capable of reflecting on and finding value within it (He uses the connection between the physical universe and the value we call beauty extensively in his later examples). If "god exists" is true and can be deduced from indisputable premises, then accepting god's existence must surely be rational.Does Dr. Augros succeed? Mostly, yes, but I think not entirely. I must be up front about my own bias. As a theologian and philosopher of religion, I have no problem with any of his conclusions. I think many of his examples and arguments deliver on what he promises, self-evident premises leading to necessary conclusions and their corollaries. But in a few cases I think his premises can be challenged because they depend on multiple (possible) uses and meanings of words in English, or because they are circular and presuppose some part of their conclusion. If god exists, it is easy to deduce a conclusion that this is necessarily so. But without that presupposition, no deduction from purely contingent experience, can quite get us to necessity when it is the connection between "what we cannot imagine" and what is actually the case that is in question. His deduction of the goodness of the first cause depends on a notion of "nobility" and that in turn rests on a Thomistic (Thomas Aquinas being an acknowledged and important source for the author) interpretation of the English word 'perfect' or 'perfection', usage that is not common in modern English.In the second half of the book Dr. Augros turns from deductive arguments to address objections to the general forms of the Cosmological, Ontological, and Teleological arguments along with his variations. Again bearing in mind my theological bias I have to say that I found a lot of ideas in this section that reflect and would improve my own writing on the subject. Although somewhat beyond his main purpose, Dr. Augros senses a need to investigate the "Problem of Evil". He introduces a simple but important distinction between 'bad things' and 'evil proper'. His subsequent discussion focuses on 'bad things' and he makes some very good distinctions and observations here about what most philosophers lump into a single category of "natural evils". His discussion of "evil proper" is more limited. He never gets into what it is, but instead contents himself with pointing out that it must always be contingent and temporally limited compared to the infinity of god and what that can purportedly do for the sufferer.An easy read, Who Designed the Designer shows why even metaphysical questions have to stop somewhere. This is "philosophy of religion" strictly speaking and would be a good example of "doing philosophy of religion" to students or anyone else who was curious about some of what philosophers of religion actually do. If you already think of yourself as a philosopher of religion you will find here more than a few thoughtful arguments and distinctions not found in other writers. Not complicated, not technical philosophy. If it isn't 100% successful nailing its conclusion, it is an insightful attempt!
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros PDF
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros EPub
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros Doc
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros iBooks
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros rtf
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros Mobipocket
Who Designed the Designer?: A Rediscovered Path to God’s Existence, by Michael Augros Kindle
