The "Five"-Category Ontology?: E. J. Lowe and the Ontology of the Divine
E. J. Lowe was a prominent and theistically-inclined philosopher who developed and defended a four-category ontology with roots in Aristotle’s Categories. But Lowe engaged in little philosophical theology and said even less about how a divine being might fit into his considered ontology. This paper...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2021
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TheoLogica
Year: 2021, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 81-99 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Aseity
B Ontology B E. J. Lowe B Substance B God |
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| Summary: | E. J. Lowe was a prominent and theistically-inclined philosopher who developed and defended a four-category ontology with roots in Aristotle’s Categories. But Lowe engaged in little philosophical theology and said even less about how a divine being might fit into his considered ontology. This paper explores ways in which the reality of a divine being might be squared with Lowe’s ontology. I motivate the exploration with a puzzle that suggests Lowe must reject either divine aseity or the traditional view that God is a substance. After showing that the puzzle cannot be overcome by rejecting one of its premises, I consider ways in which Lowe might try to reject the puzzle wholesale. I argue that the best way to reject the puzzle is to countenance a fifth fundamental category, the category of supernatural substance. |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v5i2.56033 |
