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dc.contributor.authorForrest, Peteren
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-16T08:46:00Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.citationSophia, 51(3), p. 341-349en
dc.identifier.issn1873-930Xen
dc.identifier.issn0038-1527en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11435-
dc.description.abstractWilliam Rowe in his 'Can God be Free?' (2004) argues that God, if there is a God, necessarily chooses the best. Combined with the premise that there is no best act of creation, this provides an a priori argument for atheism. Rowe assumes that necessarily God is a 'morally unsurpassable' being, and it is for that reason that God chooses the best. In this article I drop that assumption and I consider a successor to Rowe's argument, the Argument from Arbitrariness, based on the premise that God does not act arbitrarily. My chief conclusion will be that this argument fails because, for all we know, there can be non-arbitrary divine choices even if there is no best act of creation.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandsen
dc.relation.ispartofSophiaen
dc.titleOn the Argument from Divine Arbitrarinessen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11841-011-0287-8en
dc.subject.keywordsPhilosophy of Religionen
local.contributor.firstnamePeteren
local.subject.for2008220315 Philosophy of Religionen
local.subject.seo2008970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studiesen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailpforrest@une.edu.auen
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local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20120926-210538en
local.publisher.placeNetherlandsen
local.format.startpage341en
local.format.endpage349en
local.identifier.scopusid84872602778en
local.peerreviewedYesen
local.identifier.volume51en
local.identifier.issue3en
local.contributor.lastnameForresten
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:11634en
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local.title.maintitleOn the Argument from Divine Arbitrarinessen
local.output.categorydescriptionC1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journalen
local.search.authorForrest, Peteren
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local.year.published2012en
local.subject.for2020500316 Philosophy of religionen
local.subject.seo2020280119 Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studiesen
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