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Lemos, Ramon Marcelino was born on July 7, 1927 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Marcelino and Marie Louise (Moore) Lemos.
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By proposing solutions to a number of fundamental metaphysical problems, this work develops and vindicates an objective, realistic, rationalistic approach to metaphysics. Attention is given to language and meaning, international objects and formal realities, universals and particulars, prediction and predictables.
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This extended essay presents the meditations of an eminent scholar on medieval philosophical theology. Beginning with a discussion of faith and reason, Ramon M. Lemos argues that we can be practically justified in accepting certain religions even though we may not know that their central claims are true. Lemos moves on to his operational definition of God, based on St. Anselm's concept of God as a being that which no greater can be conceived. From this ground, he considers various medieval arguments for the existence of God and refutes the ability of the major arguments to succeed in demonstrating God's existence. He concludes that it is impossible to demonstrate the existence of God philosophically. This provocative book addresses the fundamental issues in the philosophy of religion―from a Christian perspective―while maintaining the necessary intellectual distance between revealed theology and philosophy.
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"Timelessly valuable. . . . An original, systematic treatment of some important issues in moral philosophy that have been neglected in recent years. . . . A splendid book of general interest to philosophers."--James Rachels, University of Alabama at Birmingham "A major contribution to the general theory of value and moral philosophy. Its thoroughness is unsurpassed in recent philosophy."--Panayot Butchvarov, University of Iowa Ramon Lemos develops and vindicates a view of "the irreducibility, rationality, and objectivity of value as an alternative to reductionist, skeptical, relativist, and subjectivist treatments of value." While traditional in his approach, Lemos concentrates mainly on developing his own views rather than on presenting criticism of the views of others. One of the central theses of his book is that value is neither identical with nor reducible to psychological phenomena such as liking or disliking, preferring, evaluating, and valuing or disvaluing. He examines various kinds of value, the place of moral value within them, the ontological status of the bearers of value, and the relationship between morality and rationality. In clear writing he defines the issues he considers, sets out his position, and supports his views with original arguments that display his awareness of the history of moral philosophy. He also discusses some of the implications for higher education of his view of the complete human good, arguing that the task of higher education is to assist students in acquiring their complete good, not merely to increase their understanding of arts and sciences. Ramon M. Lemos is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. He is the author of Metaphysical Investigations; Rights, Goods, and Democracy; Hobbes and Locke: Power and Consent; Rousseau's Political Philosophy: An Exposition and Interpretation; and Experience, Mind, and Value: Philosophical Essays and of essays and reviews in philosophical journals.
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Lemos, Ramon Marcelino was born on July 7, 1927 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Son of Marcelino and Marie Louise (Moore) Lemos.
Bachelor of Arts, University Alabama, 1951; Master of Arts, Duke, 1953; Doctor of Philosophy, Duke, 1955; Fulbright scholar, U. London, England., 1955-1956.
Member faculty University Miami, from 1956, professor philosophy, 1967—1999, chairman department, 1971-1984, professor emeritus, from 1999.
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Served with United States Marine Corps, 1945-1949. Member American Philosophical Association (program chairman Eastern division meeting 1983), Florida Philosophical Association (president 1963), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Mamie Lou McCrory, December 26, 1951 (deceased April 1990). Children: Noah Marcelino, William Ramon, Christopher Tait, John Paul. Married Anne Craft, August 7, 1994.