Being Perfect is Not Necessary for Being God
Classic perfect being theologians take 'being perfect' (or some careful variant thereof) to be conceptually necessary and sufficient for being God. I argue that this claim is false because being perfect is not conceptually necessary for being God. I rest my case on a simple thought experim...
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2019]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 43-64 |
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Existence of God
/ Perfection
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