European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 13 (4):129-156 (2021)
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Edward Feser defends the ‘Neo-Platonic proof ’ for the existence of the God of classical theism. After articulating the argument and a number of preliminaries, I first argue that premise three of Feser’s argument—the causal principle that every composite object requires a sustaining efficient cause to combine its parts—is both unjustified and dialectically ill-situated. I then argue that the Neo-Platonic proof fails to deliver the mindedness of the absolutely simple being and instead militates against its mindedness. Finally, I uncover two tensions between Trinitarianism and the Neo-Platonic proof.
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Keywords | Divine Simplicity God Incarnation Neo-Platonic Proof Trinity |
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DOI | 10.24204/ejpr.2021.3412 |
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