I recently came across somebody who argued that the foundation of reality could not be a mind, because if it were, then this mind would have...| sed-contra-philosophy.blogspot.com
One objection to theistic arguments from design is that it seems as though God could have achieved most (if not all) of the goods of creating finite beings without bothering to make a physical world, complete with finely-tuned constants, life-permitting laws, and so on. As Neil Manson puts the objection:The problem here for proponents of the fine-tuning argument is that, if God| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
While perusing Alexander Pruss' blog, I came across a post in which he offers this quote from Aquinas:Hence we must say that the distinction and multitude of things come from the intention of the first agent, who is God. For He brought things into being in order that His goodness might be communicated to creatures, and be represented by them; and because His goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, He produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting to one...| Jim Reilly's Philosophy Blog
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