Whatever it is better to be than not to be
Författare
Summary, in English
The Anselmian claim that God is that than which a greater cannot be thought in virtue of being ‘whatever it is better to be than not to be’ may be accused of incoherence or even unintelligibility. By proposing a non-relative but apparently meaningful analysis thereof, I attempt to defend it against such criticism. In particular, I argue that ‘whatever it is better to be than not to be’ can be plausibly interpreted so as to imply very many attributes traditionally predicated of that than which a greater cannot be thought. Central to this line of reasoning is the assumption that whatever is an actual moral being is greater, simpliciter, than whatever is not an actual moral being.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
131-143
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Volym
74
Issue
1
Länkar
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Religious Studies
Nyckelord
- Anselm
- God
- Universal value-commensurability
- Greatness
- Possibilism
- Actualism
- Morality
- Actuality
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0020-7047