Who is almighty?
Peter Geach recommended conceiving of God as almighty, not as omnipotent. I argue that Geach's heuristic explanation of almightiness does not provide a workable definition, and I propose one on his behalf. The resulting notion turns out to have precisely those theoretical virtues that Geach adv...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2019
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Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 317-332 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Geach, P. T. 1916-2013
/ God
/ Omnipotence
/ Religious philosophy
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IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
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Summary: | Peter Geach recommended conceiving of God as almighty, not as omnipotent. I argue that Geach's heuristic explanation of almightiness does not provide a workable definition, and I propose one on his behalf. The resulting notion turns out to have precisely those theoretical virtues that Geach advertised: it is immune to the logical puzzles that bedevil omnipotence, and it is better suited to religious contexts than the notion of maximal power that informs typical definitions of omnipotence. |
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ISSN: | 1469-901X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000246 |