Are there any non-religious philosophers who argue for the existence of God? I'm not necessarily asking for Deist philosophers (though they could be that), I just mean are there any philosophers who hold to the existence of God as a legitimate philosophical position akin to any other philosophical position like being a non-cognitivist in meta-ethics, or a substance dualist, or whatever.
>>25301323I guess Anthony Flew perhaps?
99.99% of them prior to 19th centuryPractically all of them.
Kant?>I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith
>>25301323so, what youre looking for is non revelatory theology. you can start with math, the theology of the essence of necessary and possible, but you can get bogged down for lifetimes proving that it is a necessary fact about God's mercy that God would always leave the wind still at at least one point on earth. moving on, you can look at the non incarnate Christology of the Logos in the abstract, and the theology of what is the nature of the good. it is a useful exercise to consider what statements in the summa theologiae necessarily rest on revelation and for what statements is reason sufficient
