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Journal of Religious Ethics, 2016
AbstractTheories of ethics that attempt to incorporate divine speech or commands as necessary elements in the construction of moral obligations are often viewed as vulnerable to a challenge based on the so‐called Euthyphro dilemma. According to this challenge, opponents of theistic ethics suppose that divine speech either informs one of a preexisting ...
Omar Farahat
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AbstractTheories of ethics that attempt to incorporate divine speech or commands as necessary elements in the construction of moral obligations are often viewed as vulnerable to a challenge based on the so‐called Euthyphro dilemma. According to this challenge, opponents of theistic ethics suppose that divine speech either informs one of a preexisting ...
Omar Farahat
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On the compossibility of the divine attributes
Philosophical Studies, 1978Recent proponents of the ontological argument have leamed an important lesson from Leibniz: the argument requires the assumption, or premise, that God is possible. In one form or another this premise appears in the versions of the argument endorsed by Hartshome, Malcolm, and Plantinga.1 But Leibniz's lesson has not been taken fully to heart by his ...
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Religious Studies, 2015
Abstract It is standard within the Christian tradition to characterize God in predominantly masculine terms. Let ‘traditionalism’ refer to the view that this pattern of characterization is theologically mandatory. This chapter seeks to undercut the main motivations for traditionalism by showing that it is not more accurate to ...
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Abstract It is standard within the Christian tradition to characterize God in predominantly masculine terms. Let ‘traditionalism’ refer to the view that this pattern of characterization is theologically mandatory. This chapter seeks to undercut the main motivations for traditionalism by showing that it is not more accurate to ...
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Philosophy Compass, 2010
Abstract Focusing on God’s essential attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, being eternal and omnipresent, being a creator and sustainer, and being a person, I examine how far recent discussion has been able to provide for each of these divine attributes a consistent interpretation.
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Abstract Focusing on God’s essential attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, being eternal and omnipresent, being a creator and sustainer, and being a person, I examine how far recent discussion has been able to provide for each of these divine attributes a consistent interpretation.
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2018
The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity.
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The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity.
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Spinoza and the Divine Attributes
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, 1971On the very first page of Spinoza's Ethics we find the perplexing definition of ‘attribute’: ‘By an attribute I mean what the understanding perceives in regard to a substance as constituting its essence’.
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Divine Necessity and Divine Attributes
Abstract This chapter offers fuller analysis of metaphysical issues relating to God. It first considers the sense in which God is a necessary being and Newton’s argument, or rather lack thereof, for divine necessity. It then explains the thinking behind Newton’s claim that God is necessary but nonetheless acts freely.openaire +1 more source