Aquinas on the Nature and Implications of Divine Simplicity

Authors

  • Christopher Hughes King's College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i2.2553

Abstract

I discuss what Aquinas’ doctrine of divine simplicity is, and what he takes to be its implications. I also discuss the extent to which Aquinas succeeds in motivating and defending those (putative) implications.

References

Aquinas. Summa Theologiæ. Edited by Pietro Caramello. 1952-1962. Turin: Marietti.

Hughes, Christopher. 2015. Aquinas on Being, Goodness, and God. London: Routledge.

Shoemaker, Sydney. 1969. “Time Without Change”. The Journal of Philosophy 66, no. 12: 363–81. doi:10.2307/2023892.

Stump, Eleonore. 2003. Aquinas. London: Routledge.

Vallicella, William F. 2018. “Divine Simplicity”. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University.

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Published

2018-06-12

How to Cite

Hughes, Christopher. 2018. “Aquinas on the Nature and Implications of Divine Simplicity”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (2):1-22. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i2.2553.

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2018)

Section

Research Articles