Omnisubjectivity : an essay on God and subjectivity / Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus, 1946- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subjectivity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Subjectivity.

God--Omniscence.

God.

God--Omnipresence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Linda Trinkaus Zagebski explains and defends the idea that the God of the monotheistic religions does not only know all objective facts, but he also perfectly grasps the conscious states of all conscious beings from their own point of view. She calls that property omnisubjectivity. Zagzebski proposes three models of omnisubjectivity, with special attention to the empathy model, where God's grasp of our conscious states is analogous to the way we empathise with someone else's thought or feeling. She shows how the attribute of omnisubjectivity has implications of the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation, and argues that it means that subjectivity and intersubjectivity are deep in the universe, deeper than the universe objectively described.

Contents:

Cover

Omnisubjectivity

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. Subjectivity

1.1. The Reality of Subjectivity

1.2. The Origin of the Subjective/​Objective Divide

1.3. The Scope of Subjectivity: Consciousness in God and Creatures

1.4. The Importance of Subjectivity

2. Why God Must Be Omnisubjective

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Omniscience

2.3. Omnipresence

2.4. The Practices of Prayer

2.5. Divine Love

2.6. Divine Justice

3. How God Can Be Omnisubjective

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Model of Total Empathy

3.3. The Perceptual Model

3.4. Panentheism

3.5. Creative Consciousness

4. Objections from Other Attributes

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Timelessness and Immutability

4.3. Impassibility

4.4. The Moral Objection and the Holiness Objection

4.5. Can an Essentially Infinite Deity Grasp States of Finite Creatures?

5. Counteractual Subjectivity

5.1. Grasping Counteractual Subjectivity

5.2. The Status of Counteractual Subjectivity

5.3. How Does God Grasp Counteractual Subjective States?

5.4. God's Counteractual Subjectivity

6. Divine Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity

6.1. The Trinity

6.2. Divine Subjectivity and the Problem of Evil

6.3. The Incarnation

6.4. The Holy Spirit and Divine-​Human Intersubjectivity

7. Conclusion: The Primacy of Subjectivity

7.1. Being from the Inside and from the Outside

7.2. Intersubjectivity

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus Omnisubjectivity

ISBN:

0-19-768212-X

0-19-768210-3