Omnipotence and the 'Delimiter of Possibilities' View
Aquinas notes that some analyses of omnipotence have a serious problem: they reduce the apparently substantive claim "God is omnipotent" to the trivial claim that God "can do all that He is able to do." Now, perhaps it is true that to be omnipotent is to be able to do everything God is able to do (or at least that omnipotence entails this), but this is hardly an illuminating analysis. In several places in his Anselmian Explorations, Thomas Morris defends the view that the Anselmian God is the 'delimiter of possibilities.' This view has been endorsed by other Anselmians, and...
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Topic(s):
Alexander R. Pruss
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Alfred J. Freddoso
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Alvin Plantinga
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Divine Attributes
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Divine Necessity
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Historical Thinkers
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James F. Ross
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Metaphysics
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Modality
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Omnipotence
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas P. Flint
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Thomas V. Morris
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