Timeline for Assuming that omnipotence allows only for logically possible things, is this possible for an omnipotent being to have NO free will?
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| Jan 29, 2023 at 22:14 | answer | added | Professor Sushing | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Oct 2, 2022 at 11:41 | comment | added | KarmaPeasant | @philosodad Because either we make this assumption or stop thinking about said being as it can't be explored by a human reason. | |
| Oct 1, 2022 at 22:57 | comment | added | philosodad | Why are we accepting the assumption that an omnipotent being would only be able to exercise their power in a way that followed the rules of formal systems that we've created in order to make sense of the world? | |
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| Jun 10, 2022 at 3:35 | comment | added | Anixx | @Futilitarian I would argue I do not do heartbet. | |
| Jun 5, 2022 at 1:34 | comment | added | Double Knot | Yes according to Spinoza's Ethics Book I... | |
| Jun 4, 2022 at 9:11 | comment | added | Futilitarian | @Anixx. "Ability to do anything means free will, as doing something is the ability to convert will into action". Even if you believe free will exists (a highly controversial opinion), we do things all the time that don't require will. We maintain a heartbeat, breathe, dream and digest without will. In short, we exist precisely thanks to a range of autonomic/automatic functions; functions which persist regardless of whether or not we will them to. And if free will doesn't exist, everything we do, including willing, is not freely done (unless free will is redefined,ie: under compatibilism). | |
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| Aug 25, 2021 at 12:15 | comment | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | There is a view that on Descartes' account of divine omnipotence, God can do even the logically impossible: H. Frankfurt, 'Descartes on the Creation of the Eternal Truths' (The Philosophical Review, 86, 1977) | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 11:23 | comment | added | armand | It is not logically possible to will things. People want what they like, and don't choose what they like because their choices depend on what they like. Anyway, omnipotence is a totally bogus concept out of touch with reality, don't loose your time with it. | |
| Aug 25, 2021 at 7:49 | answer | added | Pertti Ruismäki | timeline score: -2 | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 19:29 | comment | added | Anixx | Well, ability to do anything means free will, as doing something is the ability to convert will into action. | |
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| Jul 17, 2021 at 19:09 | comment | added | David Gudeman | I'm not very familiar with this area, but you might want to research Thomist discussions of God and potential. Aquinas argued that God has no potential; he is all actual, which is why he cannot change. I believe others have argued that having no potential means that you cannot act or that you cannot choose how to act because making a decision is the resolving of a potential. | |
| Jul 17, 2021 at 14:17 | comment | added | Conifold | Omnipotence entails that the being can do anything logically possible. That includes power to will things, i.e. free will. If it chooses to take away any of its powers, free will or some other, then it will no longer be omnipotent. However, it may choose instead merely not to exercise some of its powers. So it may remain omnipotent but will nothing at all, and let something else determine its actions. That way it will behave as if it has no free will. | |
| Jul 17, 2021 at 13:11 | answer | added | CriglCragl | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 17, 2021 at 9:29 | history | asked | KarmaPeasant | CC BY-SA 4.0 |