Simply Unsuccessful: The Neo-Platonic Proof of God's Existence
Edward Feser defends the "Neo-Platonic proof" for the existence of the God of classical theism. After articulating the argument and a number of preliminaries, I first argue that premise three of Feser's argument - the causal principle that every composite object requires a sustainin...
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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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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 13, Issue: 4, Pages: 129-156 |
| Further subjects: | B
Divine Simplicity
B Incarnation B Trinity B Neo-Platonic Proof B God |
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| Summary: | Edward Feser defends the "Neo-Platonic proof" for the existence of the God of classical theism. After articulating the argument and a number of preliminaries, I first argue that premise three of Feser's argument - the causal principle that every composite object requires a sustaining efficient cause to combine its parts - is both unjustified and dialectically ill-situated. I then argue that the Neo-Platonic proof fails to deliver the mindedness of the absolutely simple being and instead militates against its mindedness. Finally, I uncover two tensions between Trinitarianism and the Neo-Platonic proof. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.2021.3412 |