Divine omniscience and experience: a reply to alter
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According to one antitheist argument, the necessarily omniscient, necessarily omnipotent, and necessarily omnibenevolent Anselmian God does not exist, because if God is necessarily omnipotent it is impossible for Him to comprehend fully certain concepts, such as fear, frustration and despair, that an omniscient being needs to possess. Torin Alter examines this argument and provides three elaborate objections to it. I argue that theists would not accept any of them because they con ict with...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Nagasawa, Yujin | |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2010-08-24T03:23:18Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-20T06:03:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-08-24T03:23:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-12-20T06:03:16Z | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ars Disputandi 3 (2003) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1566-5399 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1068 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/1068 | |
dc.description.abstract | According to one antitheist argument, the necessarily omniscient, necessarily omnipotent, and necessarily omnibenevolent Anselmian God does not exist, because if God is necessarily omnipotent it is impossible for Him to comprehend fully certain concepts, such as fear, frustration and despair, that an omniscient being needs to possess. Torin Alter examines this argument and provides three elaborate objections to it. I argue that theists would not accept any of them because they con ict with traditional Judaeo-Christian doctrines concerning divine attributes. | |
dc.format | 6 pages | |
dc.publisher | Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services | |
dc.rights | http://www.arsdisputandi.org/info_copyright.html#citation "Copyright notice: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited." - from journal web site (as at 04/03/10) | |
dc.source | Ars Disputandi | |
dc.source.uri | http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000098/article.pdf | |
dc.title | Divine omniscience and experience: a reply to alter | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.refereed | Yes | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 3 | |
dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220315 | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | MigratedxPub15450 | |
local.publisher.url | http://www.uu.nl/EN/library/igitur/Pages/default.aspx | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Nagasawa, Yujin, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | ** | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | ** | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-12T08:12:25Z | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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