The Existence of God.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fenelon, Francois.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof, Ontological--Early works to 1800.

Natural theology--Early works to 1900.

Natural theology.

Local Subjects:

God--Proof, Ontological--Early works to 1800.

Natural theology--Early works to 1900.

Natural theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Auckland : The Floating Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (1651 - 1715), was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a scabrous attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699. If a great number of men of subtle and penetrating wit have not discovered God with one cast of the eye upon nature...

Contents:

Title; Contents; Introduction; Section I - Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God Are Not Within Everybody's Reach; Section II - Moral Proofs of the Existence of God Are Fitted to Every Man's Capacity; Section III - Why so Few Persons Are Attentive to the Proofs Nature Affords of the Existence of God; Section IV - All Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker; Section V - Noble Comparisons Proving that Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker First Comparison, Drawn from Homer's ""Iliad""; Section VI - Second Comparison, Drawn from the Sound of Instruments

Section VII - Third Comparison, Drawn from a StatueSection VIII - Fourth Comparison, Drawn from a Picture; Section IX - A Particular Examination of Nature; Section X - Of the General Structure of the Universe; Section XI - Of the Earth; Section XII - Of Plants; Section XIII - Of Water; Section XIV - Of the Air; Section XV - Of Fire; Section XVI - Of Heaven; Section XVII - Of the Sun; Section XVIII - Of the Stars; Section XIX - Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects; Section XX - Admirable Order in Which All the Bodies that Make Up the Universe Are Ranged

Section XXI - Wonders of the Infinitely LittleSection XXII - Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal; Section XXIII - Of the Instinct of the Animal; Section XXIV - Of Food; Section XXV - Of Sleep; Section XXVI - Of Generation; Section XXVII - Though Beasts Commit Some Mistakes, Yet Their Instinct is, in Many Cases, Infallible; Section XXVIII - It is Impossible Beasts Should Have Souls; Section XXIX - Sentiments of Some of the Ancients Concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts; Section XXX - Of Man; Section XXXI - Of the Structure of Man's Body; Section XXXII - Of the Skin

Section XXXIII - Of Veins and ArteriesSection XXXIV - Of the Bones, and Their Jointing; Section XXXV - Of the Organs; Section XXXVI - Of the Inward Parts; Section XXXVII - Of the Arms and Their Use; Section XXXVIII - Of the Neck and Head; Section XXXIX - Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face; Section XL - Of the Tongue and Teeth; Section XLI - Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing; Section XLII - Of the Proportion of Man's Body; Section XLIII - Of the Soul, Which Alone, Among All Creatures, Thinks and Knows; Section XLIV - Matter Cannot Think

Section XLV - Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of Which God Alone Can Be the AuthorSection XLVI - The Soul Has an Absolute Command Over the Body; Section XLVII - The Power of the Soul Over the Body is Not Only Supreme or Absolute, but Blind at the Same Time; Section XLVIII - The Sovereignty of the Soul Over the Body Principally Appears in the Images Imprinted in the Brain; Section XLIX - Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain; Section L - The Mind of Man is Mixed with Greatness and Weakness Its Greatness Consists in Two Things First, the Mind Has the Id

Section LI - The Mind Knows the Finite Only by the Idea of the Infinite

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-77651-032-1

OCLC:

609842317