Possibilities for Divine Freedom

• Authors: Kittle Simon

Title variants

PL

O możliwościach Bożej wolności

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

PL

W artykule przeprowadzam analizę trzech ujęć Bożej wolności. Staram się wykazać, że dwa teoretyczne ujęcia, które pojawiły się ostatnio i które próbują wyjaśnić Bożą wolność, nie odwołując się do koncepcji alternatywnych możliwości, nie osiągają postawionego sobie celu. Następnie poka­zuję, w jaki sposób wizja Bożej wolności oparta na idei Roberta Adamsa, że Boża łaska oznacza, iż nie jest on zobligowany, by koniecznie stwarzać najlepszy z możliwych światów, jest zdolna wyjaś­nić, w jaki sposób Bóg może być wolny, a zarazem doskonale dobry i rozumny.

Keywords

EN

freedom; free will; divine freedom; alternative possibilities

PL

wolność; wolna wola; Boża wolność; alternatywne możliwości

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II. Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
• Journal: Roczniki Filozoficzne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 93-123

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Kittle Simon

• Universität Innsbruck

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18290/rf.2016.64.4-6