Omnipotence Paradox
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- Omnipotence Paradox
- Anselm & Descartes
- Both philosophers depend on the idea that God is all powerful
- Anything less than this would not be God as there would be something better
- God can do anything including the impossible and self-contradictory
- Voluntarism
- Both philosophers depend on the idea that God is all powerful
- Aquinas & Swinburne
- Both philosophers argue that God can do everything logically possible
- We have to understand ‘everything’ as being things (impossible things are not things)
- God can do everything logically possible
- Non-voluntarism
- Both philosophers argue that God can do everything logically possible
- Peter Vardy
- Argues that God has self imposed limitations so that the universe can exist the way it is
- God deliberately limits his own power
- Whitehead & Hartshorne
- God should be thought as unsurpassable and not all powerful
- God can overcome all resistance and can be challenged
- God should be seen as unsurpassably great and not all powerful
- God should be thought as unsurpassable and not all powerful
- The Omnipotence Paradox is the idea that all powerfulness seems to be self-contradictory
- The Stone Paradox: could an omnipotent being (God) create a stone too heavy for it to lift? - Mackie (1955)
- Can an all powerful being do anything even the impossible or is it just the best possible being?
- Anselm & Descartes
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