Improvable Creations

Q2 Arts and Humanities TheoLogica Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI:10.14428/thl.v8i2.78723
Peter van Inwagen
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God must create the best. But there is no best. Therefore, there is no God. Various philosophers—among them Stephen Grover and William Rowe—have endorsed more elaborate versions of this argument. Dean Zimmerman (in “Resisting Rowe’s No-Best-World Argument for Atheism”) has subjected their defenses of the argument to careful scrutiny—scrutiny that was in fact so careful that there remains very little to say about the argument. This essay contains my attempt to supply that very little.
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上帝必须创造最好的。但是没有最好的。因此,没有上帝。许多哲学家——其中包括斯蒂芬·格罗弗和威廉·罗——对这一论点进行了更详尽的阐述。迪安·齐默尔曼(在《抵制罗的无神论没有最好的世界的论证》一书中)已经把他们对这一论证的辩护置于仔细的审查之下——这种审查实际上是如此仔细,以至于对这一论证几乎没有什么可说的。在这篇文章中,我试图提供的东西很少。
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TheoLogica
TheoLogica Arts and Humanities-Religious Studies
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审稿时长
24 weeks
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