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    One reasonable response to the contradiction is to deny d... — Carmelics
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    One reasonable response to the contradiction is to deny divine simplicity.

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    • The notion of self-subsistent Being is contradictory to the discursive intellect.
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    • 1.Divine simplicity is entailed by classical perfect being theology: a composite God would depend on parts, violating aseity.
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    • 2.Denying simplicity to resolve apparent contradictions sacrifices explanatory coherence for mere verbal consistency.
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    • 3.Aquinas, Maimonides, and Avicenna converge on simplicity as the only coherent account of an uncaused first cause.
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    • 1.The contradiction in P1 arises from applying discursive, creaturely categories to God, not from simplicity itself being false.
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    • 2.Apophatic theology, from Pseudo-Dionysius through Meister Eckhart, holds that apparent contradictions signal the limits of predication, not divine incoherence.
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    The problem, of course, is to explain how God can be both Being esseand something that is ens. This is unintelligible to the discursive intellect. Either Being is other than beings or it is not. If Being is other than beings, then Being cannot itself be. That would imply that God, who must be Being itself to be absolute, cannot be. If, on the other hand, Being just is beings taken collectively, then God could only be a being among beings and not the absolute reality. To the discursive intellect the notion of self-subsistent Being is contradictory. For the idea here is that Being itself is a b...

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