Improvable Creations

God must create the best. But there is no best. Therefore, there is no God. Various philosophers - among them Stephen Grover and William Rowe - have endorsed more elaborate versions of this argument. Dean Zimmerman (in "Resisting Rowe's No-Best-World Argument for Atheism") has subject...

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Subtitles:"Essays in Honour of Dean Zimmerman"
Main Author: Van Inwagen, Peter 1942- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain 2024
In: TheoLogica
Year: 2024, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-12
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
NBC Doctrine of God
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Theism, Zimmerman
B Infinity
B No best world
B God
B Rowe
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Summary:God must create the best. But there is no best. Therefore, there is no God. Various philosophers - among them Stephen Grover and William Rowe - have endorsed more elaborate versions of this argument. Dean Zimmerman (in "Resisting Rowe's No-Best-World Argument for Atheism") has subjected their defenses of the argument to careful scrutiny - scrutiny that was in fact so careful that there remains very little to say about the argument. This essay contains my attempt to supply that very little.
ISSN:2593-0265
Contains:Enthalten in: TheoLogica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i2.78723