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How Philosophers Think About God | 9 Intriguing Approaches

Philosophy for the People

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The Advantages of the Thomistic Approach

Aquinas' per-allied principle comes in and is the distinction between essentially ordered and accidentally ordered causal series. I think it offers some very unique and interesting resources for dealing with infinite regress issues. And of course, he traverses the so-called gap by arguing that anything that's pure actuality is just going to come fully loaded with divine attributes.

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