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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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain 2021
In: TheoLogica
Jahr: 2021, Band: 5, Heft: 2, Seiten: 81-99
IxTheo Notationen:KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
NBC Gotteslehre
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Aseity
B Ontology
B E. J. Lowe
B Substance
B God
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:2593-0265
Enthält:Enthalten in: TheoLogica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.14428/thl.v5i2.56033