Divine Simplicity and Divine Freedom

Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 89:45-56 (2015)
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I explain the doctrine of divine simplicity, and reject what is now the standard way to explicate it in analytic philosophy. I show that divine simplicity imperils the claim that God is free, and argue against a popular proposal for dealing with the problem.

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10.5840/acpaproc20172661

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