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Philosophy Compass, 2011
Abstract The paper surveys two contrasting views of first‐order analyses of classical theistic doctrines about the existence and nature of God. On the first view, first‐order logic provides methods for the adequate analysis of these doctrines, for example by construing ‘God’ as a singular term or as a monadic predicate, or by taking ...
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Abstract The paper surveys two contrasting views of first‐order analyses of classical theistic doctrines about the existence and nature of God. On the first view, first‐order logic provides methods for the adequate analysis of these doctrines, for example by construing ‘God’ as a singular term or as a monadic predicate, or by taking ...
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Divine Simplicity and Divine Command Ethics
International Philosophical Quarterly, 2008In this paper I will argue that a false assumption drives the attraction of philosophers to a divine command theory of morality. Specifically, I suggest the idea that anything not created by God is independent of God is a misconception. The idea misleads us into thinking that our only choice in offering a theistic ground for morality is between making ...
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Monist, 1997
L'A. defend la conception de la simplicite de Dieu developpee par Saint Thomas d'Aquin comme caracteristique essentielle de la nature divine. Examinant les fondements metaphysiques de l'argument thomiste en faveur de la simplicite et de la necessite logique de Dieu, s'articulant autour des notions de forme, substance, pensee actuelle, existence et ...
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L'A. defend la conception de la simplicite de Dieu developpee par Saint Thomas d'Aquin comme caracteristique essentielle de la nature divine. Examinant les fondements metaphysiques de l'argument thomiste en faveur de la simplicite et de la necessite logique de Dieu, s'articulant autour des notions de forme, substance, pensee actuelle, existence et ...
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Aquinas On Being, Goodness, And Divine Simplicity
New Blackfriars, 2003AbstractAquinas's virtue-based ethics is grounded in his metaphysics, and in particular in one part of his doctrine of the transcendentals, namely, the relation of being and goodness. This metaphysics supplies for his normative ethics the sort of metaethical foundation that some contemporary virtue-centered ethics have been criticized for lacking, and ...
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Divine simplicity: some recent defenses and the prevailing challenge of analogical language
International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 2021Rory Misiewicz
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Contemplating Divine Simplicity
Is divine simplicity coherent? Is there adequate theological and philosophical motivation for the doctrine? Does it undermine God’s freedom in creation? Does it help or hinder Trinitarian doctrine? For the first time in a multi-view format, a team of renowned proponents and critics of divine simplicity come together to consider these questions and ...openaire +1 more source
Why truthmaker theory cannot save divine simplicity
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2021Dean Da Vee
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On Two Problems of Divine Simplicity
2008Abstract The doctrine of divine simplicity claims that there is no ontological composition in God of any sort, whether of matter and form, or of essence and accident, or of this attribute and that attribute considered as ontologically distinct.
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