Anselmian Motivations for God’s Simplicity

February 11, 2007 in Philosophy, Theology Proper: Doctrine of God

I want to suggest here what I think are two of Anselms motivations for his insistence that God is metaphysically simple and see what everyone thinks of them.
It would seem, then, that the supremely good substance is called ‘just’ by its participating in a quality (in this case, justice), rather than through itself.
But this is [...]

Descartes & Postmodernism

January 30, 2007 in Current Trends, Epistemology, Metaphysical Frameworks, Philosophical Movements, Philosophy in Context, Postmodernism, Rene Descartes, The Enlightenment

In class tonight my professor made an interesting observation regarding the “postmodern movement.”
 His point was that postmodernism isn’t necessarily a “shift” but rather a strain, albeit a radical one, within modernity.
To illustrate this point he pointed us to one of Johnny-Dee’s favorite philosophers, Rene Descartes.  Descartes is widely believed to have ushered in the enlightenment/modernity [...]