David Braine | |
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| Born | 2 September 1940 |
| Died | 17 February 2017 (aged 77) Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen |
| Resting place | Pluscarden Abbey, Elgin, Scotland |
| Occupation | Analytic philosopher |
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David Braine (2 September 1940 – 17 February 2017[1]) was a British analytic philosopher with interests in analytic philosophy of religion and metaphysics, who sought to marry the techniques and insights of analytical philosophy and phenomenology to the metaphysics of classical Thomism. His The Reality of Time and the Existence of God set out to prove the existence of God from the fact that the world enjoys continuity in time. He argued that nothing in the world could be the cause of this continuity, whence God came into the picture.
His book The Human Person: Animal and Spirit attempts to provide a philosophical analysis of human beings which makes life after death possible.[2]
Due to a car accident in 1977, he became paralyzed from the chest down.[1] Braine was opposed to the legalization of euthanasia, and based some of that opposition on his own personal experience of living with a disability.[3]
Braine's work addressed issues including the nature of God's presence in the world, secondary causation, and the compatibility between an eternal God and the idea that God created time.[4]
- ^ a b Fimister, Alan (27 March 2017). "Obituary: David Braine, leading Catholic philosopher who battled disability". Catholic Herald. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
- ^ John W. Cooper (2000). Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. xix. ISBN 978-0-8028-4600-6.
David Braine uses contemporary philosophical tools to articulate a concept of humans as language-using animals that is a holistic alternative both to substance dualism and materialism and yet accounts for the possibility of personal transcendence of biological death.
- ^ Braine, David (11 May 2010). "End of Life Assistance (Scotland) Bill" (PDF). Retrieved 1 April 2017.
- ^ Bradshaw, David (1996). ""All Existing is the Action of God": The Philosophical Theology of David Braine". The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review. 60 (3): 379–416. doi:10.1353/tho.1996.0009. ISSN 2473-3725. S2CID 171365472.
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