Of course, the perfect, unchanging, eternal God of Plato suffers nothing, since suffering is a form of passivity.
Aristotle’s God is pure reflexivity—“thought thinking itself”—which manifests as “the prime mover.”
Medieval Aristotelian theology posits that God is causa sui, a God that causes Godself to exist. There is no dilemma in that. The original inn…
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