A NOTE ON THEOLOGICAL FATALISM

• Authors: Blum A.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We contend that a very seductive argument for theological fatalism fails. In the course of our discussion we point out that theological fatalism is incompatible with the existence of a being who is omnipotent, omniscient and infallible. We suggest that 'possible' formalized as '0' is to be understood as 'can or could have been' and not simply as 'can'. The argument we discuss conflates the two. We end by rounding out, hope-fully, some left over corners of serious concern to the theist.

Keywords

EN

'CAN OR COULD HAVE BEEN'; GOD; THEOLOGICAL FATALISM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 143-147
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Blum A.

• A. Blum, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03266741