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Why an unsurpassable being cannot create a surpassable world

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2005

JESSE R. STEINBERG
JESSE R. STEINBERG
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of California at Santa Barbara, 5631 South Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93116
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Abstract

Daniel and Frances Howard-Snyder suggest that it is possible for an omnipotent being, Jove, to create randomly a world from a continuum of ever more perfect possible worlds. They then go on to argue that Jove could be characterized as morally unsurpassable despite creating a surpassable world. I raise a number of problems for the view that Jove could be characterized as morally unsurpassable when he creates (randomly or not) a surpassable world.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , September 2005 , pp. 323 - 333
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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