Debating Atheists, Priestly Celibacy, and More (William Lane Craig) | Ep. 189
Pints With Aquinas
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The Problem With Platonism
I became an anti-realist about these abstract objects. And those objections are a lot more serious than can God create a rock so heavy that he can't lift? Oh, of course. That's conceptualism. The historic Christian position is that these platonic entities don't exist as abstract objects. Rather, Augustine took the realm of the forms, the platonic forms, and he moved them into the mind of God as the divine ideas. It's not as though there are really a plurality of divine ideas.
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