What Is Called Thinking?

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Does God Suffer "Innovator's Dilemma"?

Does God Suffer "Innovator's Dilemma"?

On Theology and Disruption

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Zohar Atkins
Mar 03, 2021
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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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