2021 - Franco Angeli
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La Puissance et son nombre, d'Abélard à Kepler
668-685 p.
- Power and its Number, from Abelard to Kepler. Catholic theology has always held, contrary to what the philosophers say, that God can do everything: his power is infinite, he always has a reserve of power and this reserve is not exhausted in the opus creationis. Thus, God's power is divine because it is incomprehensible. Therefore, there is an essential equivocity in the potentia Dei, which cannot be confused with the power of nature. What are examined here instead are some of the arguments in favor of the opposite thesis. Let us take seriously a logical objection: by saying that divine power is inexhaustible, is this not to assert the impossibility of its being exhausted and, in so doing, to impose on it a limit which, by definition, it cannot bear?.
- Should not a consistent theology refrain from considering the divine power according to comparisons borrowed from the kingdom of created things (metaphors of royalty, source, light)? Kepler's attempt to think of nature as a pure Trinitarian symbol seems in this respect to deserve special attention. [Publisher's text].
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Rivista di storia della filosofia : LXXVI, 4, 2021-
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Kepler, Descartes, divine power, history of metaphysics
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In derselben Datei
- Radical natural theologies from Duns Scotus to Christian Wolff : introduction
- La teologia naturale, Duns Scoto e la deduzione a priori della Trinità
- The natural theology of Nicholas Bonetus
- La Puissance et son nombre, d'Abélard à Kepler
- Même la Trinité : Descartes, Pascal et Saint-ÂÂAnge
- Prouver sans démontrer : Malebranche et la Trinité
- Usages et fonctions du concept de cité de Dieu dans la première philosophie de Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Diversa Theologiae naturalis systemata : Christian Wolff's Ways to God.
- Involution and the convergence of minds : the philosophical stakes of Lalande's vocabulaire
- Patrizia Pozzi
- Recensioni
- Indice dell'annata 2021