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You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.
ISBN10: 0199204128, ISBN13: 9780199204120, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0199204128, ISBN13: 9780199204120, [publisher: Clarendon Press] Softcover Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear. [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Paperback / softback. New. A study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. ISBN 0199204128 9780199204120 [GB]
ISBN10: 0199204128, ISBN13: 9780199204120, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Softcover Paperback. In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power are such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, asLeibniz tells us, 'to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness'. But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely.And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating us, since, as parts of the best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us---he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of theseconclusions, taken by itself, seems at all plausible. Yet each conclusion appears to follow from the conception of God now dominant in the great religions of the West. William Rowe presentsa detailed study of this ...
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Paperback / softback. New. A study of a central problem in philosophy of religion: can it be right to regard God as free and as praiseworthy for being perfectly good? Allowing that he has perfect knowledge and perfect goodness, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. ISBN 0199204128 9780199204120 [GB]
Oxford University Press, U.S.A, Date: 2006-10-12. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2006. Oxford University Press, U.S.A ISBN 0199204128 9780199204120 [US]
ISBN10: 0199204128, ISBN13: 9780199204120, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In the three major religions of the West, God is understood to be a being whose goodness, knowledge, and power are such that it is impossible for any being, including God himself, to have a greater degree of goodness, knowledge, and power. This book focuses on God's freedom and praiseworthiness in relation to his perfect goodness. Given his necessary perfections, if there is a best world for God to create he would have no choice other than to create it. For, asLeibniz tells us, 'to do less good than one could is to be lacking in wisdom or in goodness'. But if God could not do otherwise than create the best world, he created the world of necessity, not freely. And, if that is so, it may be argued that we have no reason to be thankful to God for creating ussince, as parts of the best possible world, God was simply unable to do anything other than create us--he created us of necessity, not freely. Moreover, we are confronted with the difficulty of having to believe that this world, with its Holocaust, and innumerable other evils, is the best that an infinitely powerful, infinitely good being could do in creating a world. Neither of these conclusions, taken by itself, seems at all plausible. Yet each conclusion appears to follow from theconception of God now dominant in the great religions of the West.William Rowe pres ...
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