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Being and God: Universal Categories and One Particular Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Frederick Sontag
Frederick Sontag
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, Pomona College, Claremont
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When we think of the problem of ‘universals’, we tend first of all to identify this issue with medieval philosophy. In that period the arguments ran hot and heavy, and the result was that philosophers almost came to be classified according to the position each took about the relation between the individual and universal concepts. Of course, the fact is that the problem of universals has been important in every philosophical age in western thought. Metaphysics as an enterprise may rise and fall in popularity, but the problem of universals is always with us. Yet, like most philosophical problems of importance, it has not always meant one thing.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1973 , pp. 437 - 448
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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References

page 439 note 1 For a discussion, which is not pursued here, of how the many concepts of God relate to God's actual existence, see my Divine Perfection: Possible Concepts of God. Harper & Row. New York, 1962.Google Scholar

page 446 note 1 Sartre, J. P.: Being and Nothingness. Trans. Hazel, Barnes. Philosophical Library, New York, 1956, p. 560.Google Scholar

page 447 note 1 In my The Existentialist Prolegomena: To A Future Metaphysics. The University of Chicago Press. Chicago, 1969.Google Scholar