John Leslie's Platonic and non‐religious pantheism of infinitely many divine minds

Philosophy Compass 13 (9):e12512 (2018)
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I survey John Leslie's Platonic thesis that if something sufficiently good possibly exists, then it could be ethically required that it actually exists—along with the pantheistic world‐picture to which this thesis leads.

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10.1111/phc3.12512

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