Omnipotence: Dean Zimmerman, Negative Nelly, and the Divine Delegates
Should an omnipotent being be able to limit its own power? Along with Swinburne, Dean Zimmerman answers in the affirmative. My intuitions push in the opposite direction. The ability to limit one's own power constitutes a vulnerability. In this paper, I argue that a great deal hangs on this issu...
| Otros títulos: | "Essays in Honour of Dean Zimmerman" |
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Presses Universitaires de Louvain, Université Catholique de Louvain
2024
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TheoLogica
Año: 2024, Volumen: 8, Número: 2, Páginas: 1-21 |
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| Sumario: | Should an omnipotent being be able to limit its own power? Along with Swinburne, Dean Zimmerman answers in the affirmative. My intuitions push in the opposite direction. The ability to limit one's own power constitutes a vulnerability. In this paper, I argue that a great deal hangs on this issue. If God cannot revoke His own omnipotence, then only a necessarily existent being can ever create anything truly ex nihilo. Moreover, if God cannot revoke His own omnipotence, then it turns out that theism entails idealism. No wonder that Zimmerman resists. I prefer to take the plunge and endorse idealism! |
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| ISSN: | 2593-0265 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: TheoLogica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.14428/thl.v8i2.77743 |