tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post863666960146725883..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Divine simplicity and theistic reductive accountsAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-50222561302085102922010-02-19T09:00:46.418-06:002010-02-19T09:00:46.418-06:00Yeah, that sort of ontology might help rehabilitat...Yeah, that sort of ontology might help rehabilitate these sorts of reductive views.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-31844724237524759112010-02-19T06:00:36.651-06:002010-02-19T06:00:36.651-06:00I've read little on this, but I have noticed t...I've read little on this, but I have noticed that some Scholastics thought of the Forms as parts of God, and others of them as created by God. So I was wondering, if one thought of God's thoughts as products of His will (as extrinsic to His essence, as parts of His creation), would that not allow one to combine such divine simplicity with such theistic reductive accounts?<br /><br />(And I wonder if, when I create a thought, that thought is part of me, or part of my creation:)Martin Cookehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11425491938517935179noreply@blogger.com