Tag: divine simplicity
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Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse
Fr. Aidan Kimel would like me to discuss the question whether the doctrine of divine simplicity entails the collapse of modal distinctions. I am happy to take a crack at it. I take my cue from a passage in a paper Fr. Kimel kindly sent me. In "Simply Impossible: A Case Against Divine Simplicity" (Journal of Reformed…
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God and Mann: Divine Simplicity and Property-Instances
Herewith, some notes on Chapter 2 of William E. Mann, God, Modality, and Morality (Oxford UP, 2015), "Divine Simplicity." I have been invited to review the book for Faith and Philosophy. This entry, then, by way of warm-up. For an introduction to the topic of divine simplicity, see my Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry. One…