Aquinas on the Nature and Implications of Divine Simplicity

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):1-22 (2018)
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Abstract

I discuss what Aquinas’ doctrine of divine simplicity is, and what he takes to be its implications. I also discuss the extent to which Aquinas succeeds in motivating and defending those implications.

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