Departmental Seminar: Dr Samuel Lebens (Haifa)

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Abstract

A number of theologians are committed to God's being, in some important sense, beyond description. This position faces a number of important questions. In what 'important sense' is God said to be beyond description? Why think it to be true that he is beyond description? And how can one avoid the accusation that, in describing God as beyond description, one automatically violates the constraint, and describes him? This talk addresses these questions in conversation with the philosophical literature about the paradox of the preface, and in conversation with the esoteric conclusion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus.

2.16/17
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester

Dr Paula Satne