Ep. 49 - Is God Simple? | Divine Simplicity, Phenomenology, and Philosophical Theology w/Steven Nemes
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The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity
In my interpretation, the doctorn of divine simplicity affirms that god is not an individual with qualities. A positive statement would be, a god is pure, actual it. But i think that these two ways of stating, eh, maybe they have to go hand in hand, but i think that the negative formulation is more helpful. I soo, you start with an existing individual, for example, my dog,. And then i take away dog, and i leave the pure existence without limits. And then that is something like what god isajust, pure being without limits. The basis for the being of everything contingent, ok?
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