Archive for July 25th, 2007
Is God a Utilitarian?
In several posts I have accepted a possibility that God is a utilitarian Who seeks to maximize human happiness. At the same time, what has vexed me personally to some extent is the fact that God’s utilitarianism, which involves optimizing pleasure over the entire world population and all times, will inevitably trade off one person’s [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Philosophy, Religion.
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Objections to God’s Simplicity and Replies
I have made use of the doctrine of divine simplicity a number of times in my reviews here. The doctrine is said to be “controversial” by many writers. No one, however, has taken Aquinas’s proofs of God’s simplicity in ST, I, 3 and refuted them. Thomas V. Morris has come closer than anybody in his [...]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion.
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