What God might be
As Plato suggested, the cosmos may exist because this is ethically necessary. It then might well consist of infinitely many minds, each itself infinite through eternally knowing all that was worth knowing. Our universe would exist inside one of them, as a pattern in its thought. But intrinsic value...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 85, Issue: 1, Pages: 63-75 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Platonism
/ Cosmology
/ Panpsychism
/ Pantheism
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Free Will
B Pantheism B Creation B Infinity B Platonism B Mind B Panpsychism B Value B Cosmogony B Cosmology B God |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Summary: | As Plato suggested, the cosmos may exist because this is ethically necessary. It then might well consist of infinitely many minds, each itself infinite through eternally knowing all that was worth knowing. Our universe would exist inside one of them, as a pattern in its thought. But intrinsic value could be a fiction, making Plato's suggestion a non-starter. Again, indeterministic free will might have immense value. Those infinite minds could then differ from one another in constantly changing ways through the free decisions of beings who lived, moved and had their being inside them. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-018-9686-x |