Existence and actuality: Hartshorne on the ontological proof and immanent causality

Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 46:125-147 (2013)
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Las pretensiones del autor son: Describir la versión modal de la prueba ontológica propuesta por Charles Hartshorne, una versión que enfatiza la anomalía modal del concepto de Dios, que demuestra que las dos únicas alternativas metafísicas coherentes son el positivismo y un teísmo basado en la noción de 'necesidad bajo condiciones tautológicas', y que vindica esta última opción apelando a una filosofía del proceso inspirada en Whitehead y cuya herramienta conceptual básica es la distinción entre existencia y actualidad. Evaluar la propuesta de Hartshorne, defendiéndola frente a equivocaciones frecuentes y desarrollándola en al menos dos aspectos, incluyendo un análisis del proyecto de Russell de reducir las proposiciones modales a enunciados de alcance, y proponiendo una concepción iterativa de la modalidad. Reivindicar la actitud filosófica de Hartshorne, un racionalismo circunspecto que evita el reduccionismo sin temer el conocimiento racionalIn this paper, our objectives are: To provide an outline of the modal version of the ontological proof proposed by Charles Hartshorne, one version which emphasizes the unique logical properties of the notion of God, which demonstrates that the proof leaves open only two coherent alternatives, positivism and modal theism, and which, in order to cope successfully with positivism, appeals to a process philosophy inspired by Whitehead which accepts contingent properties, as well as essential ones, in God. To evaluate Hartshorne's position, defending it against some usual misunderstandings and suggesting some improvements, in concrete, an assessment of Russell's project of reducing modal values to scope-words, and the development of an iterative conception of modality. To vindicate Hartshorne's philosophical attitude, a circumspect rationalism which tries to make sense of recalcitrant phenomena without yielding to epistemological or conceptual deflationism, and which underlines that experience has a rational basis, but that reason cannot exhaust experience

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