PHIL 266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maimonides, Omnipotence
27 Oct 2016
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Agree that scripture reveals a xed number of divine attributes that. Seeks to explain how to meaningfully attribute one and the same property to both the divine and the human, while understanding both have said properties in fundamentally different ways. God is good > god = goodness; Linda is good > linda is good, for now. Properties pertain contingently to humans but necessarily and completely to god. Apophatic theology (via negativa): the negative way". The only way to determine what god is, is to determine what god is not. Believed that scripture was written in language of the common people. This form of writing presents god in an anthropomorphized way. Theological investigation is to de-anthropomorphize god by stripping away the positively-applied properties of god. One of the most familiar of the divine attributes. Entails that god is able to do things that contradict god"s nature (i. e. do something evil) Thomas aquinas argues for the limitations of god"s omnipotence.
