Rowe's Argument from Improvability

Philosophical Papers 35 (1):1-25 (2006)
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Abstract

William Rowe has argued that if there is an infinite sequence of improving worlds then an essentially perfectly good being must actualize some world in the sequence and must not actualize any world in the sequence. Since that is impossible, there exist no perfectly good beings. I show that Rowe's argument assumes that the concept of a maximally great being is incoherent. Since we are given no reason to believe that the concept of a maximally great being is incoherent we have no reason to believe Rowe's Argument from Improvability is sound

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Mike Almeida
University of Texas at San Antonio

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God and the Best.Bruce Langtry - 1996 - Faith and Philosophy 13 (3):311-328.

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