The deadlock of absolute divine simplicity

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 03 Feb 2012 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, volume 74, pages 117-130 (issn: 0020-7047, eissn: 1572-8684,

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Authors: Schmitt, Yann;

doi: 10.1007/s11153-012-9336-7

The deadlock of absolute divine simplicity

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Abstract

In this article, I explain how and why different attempts to defend absolute divine simplicity fail. A proponent of absolute divine simplicity has to explain why different attributions do not suppose a metaphysical complexity in God but just one superproperty, why there is no difference between God and His super-property and finally how a absolute simple entity can be the truthmaker of different intrinsic predications. It does not necessarily lead to a rejection of divine simplicity but it shows that we may consider another conception of divine simplicity compatible with some metaphysical complexity in God.

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Catholic University of Paris
France

Keywords

Simplicity, Truthmaker, Ontology, God

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