Possibilites for divine freedom

Roczniki Filozoficzne 64 (4):93-123 (2016)
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I examine three accounts of divine freedom. I argue that two recent accounts which attempt to explain God’s freedom without appealing to alternative possibilities fail. I then show how a view of divine freedom based on Robert Adams’s idea that God’s grace means he has no obligation to create the best world is able to explain how God can be free while also being perfectly good and perfectly rational.

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10.18290/rf.2016.64.4-6

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