God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity And The: Me...

II. The Core Thesis: Simplicity as a Condition for Absoluteness

This draft explores the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) as articulated in seminal work, God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness . God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Me...

Dolezal’s central argument is that if God were composed of parts, he would depend on those parts for his very being. This would mean the parts (or the "composer" who unified them) are ontologically prior to God, which contradicts God’s status as the absolute, self-sufficient First Cause. God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Me...

God Without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of Absoluteness I. Introduction God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Me...