Logic Matters 2008-03-26

Philosophy of Religion #1

The first chapter of Murray and Rea's An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language is called 'Attributes of God: independence, goodness and power'. You can get an idea of its style and content from its final paragraph:As the foregoing makes clear, the topic of the concept of God is a philosophically rich and fascinating one. In engaging the concept philosophically we must first decide which concept of God is salient, and then consider the various puzzles that arise for the divine attributes that follow from that concept. Our attention has been focused on the concept of God that arises from perfect-being theology. On that concept God is, among other things, self-existent (or necessarily existing), a creator and providential superintender, and perfectly good. While these attributes initially seem straightforward, more careful scrutiny shows us that interesting puzzles lie just beneath the ...

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