Banca de DEFESA: DAVI JOSE PAIVA DE OLIVEIRA

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STUDENT : DAVI JOSE PAIVA DE OLIVEIRA
DATE: 20/12/2024
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: Auditório D - CCHLA
TITLE:

THE ENS NECESSARIUM: THE ONTOLOGICAL PROOF OF GOD'S EXISTENCE IN THE ROOTS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL'S ANALYTICAL THOUGHT

KEY WORDS:

Ontological Argument; Bertrand Russell; Theory of Definite Descriptions; Ens Necessarium; Existence.

PAGES: 138
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUMMARY:

The reasoning later known as the Ontological Argument, conceived by the medieval philosopher Anselm of Canterbury (c. 1033-1109), has been discussed and reformulated numerous times throughout the history of philosophy. Aiming to establish a connection between a reasoning of historical significance to philosophy and the roots of contemporary analytical tradition, as well as to advocate for the importance of historiographical studies in better understanding the origin and development of ideas within analytic philosophy, this work investigates the influences of the historically renowned Ontological Argument on the works of the British philosopher and one of the leading figures in the analytical tradition, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). The analysis is based on a reading and interpretation of philosophical works on the subject, divided into three main stages. First, through a general historiographical overview of the discussion tradition surrounding the argument, a historical panorama of its theological and rhetorical interpretations is outlined. Second, Russell’s perspective on the development of this reasoning is exposed through his historiographical works—such as Wisdom of the West (1959) and A History of Western Philosophy (1945)—allowing for an assessment of the argument’s role as one of the traditional issues to be elucidated by Russell’s new approach to philosophy through logical and linguistic analysis of propositions. Finally, the work focuses more specifically on Russell’s perspective of the Ontological Argument through his Theory of Definite Descriptions, presented in On Denoting (1905). The aim is to highlight the historical importance of the argument within this seminal theory for analytic philosophy, situating the Ontological Argument as an example of traditionally problematic philosophical reasoning that can be elucidated through a new logical methodology for analyzing propositions.

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