Argument
Omnipotence
Overview
Omnipotence is the property of possessing maximal power. Monotheistic religions generally attribute omnipotence only to the deity of their faith. In the monotheistic religious philosophy of Abrahamic religions, omnipotence is often listed as one of God's characteristics, along with omniscience, omnipresence, and omnibenevolence.
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It remains therefore, that God is called omnipotent because He can do all things that are possible absolutely; which is the second way of saying a thing is possible. For a thing is said to be possible or impossible absolutely, according to the relation in which the very terms stand to one another, possible if the predicate is not incompatible with the subject, as that Socrates…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Omnipotence is; names Omnipotence several times.
His will-acts, as well as the emotion from which they spring and the insight by which they are guided, are superhuman in power. But this power is not equivalent to omnipotence. This it cannot be by very reason of the multiplicity of gods, each of whom has a particular sphere of activity. Frequently, moreover, omnipotence is rendered impossible by the idea--likewise carried over from the terrestrial to the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
States what Omnipotence is; names Omnipotence twice.
The omnipotence of God has therefore been actual from eternity, and in the same actuality will remain to eternity. In this way the omnipotence of God, in my opinion, is far more firmly established.
Benedictus de Spinoza, The Philosophy of Spinoza
Names Omnipotence several times.
Philosophers who discussed Omnipotence
- Lev Shestov
- Mircea Eliade
- Simone Weil
- Maimonides
- Max Weber
- Pietro Pomponazzi
- J. L. Mackie
- Michael Huemer
- Paul Draper (philosopher)
- The Art of Loving
Related ideas
- Abrahamic religions
- John Stuart Mill
- Melanie Klein
- Monotheism
- Augustine of Hippo
- Brahman
- Thomas Aquinas
- Omnipresence
- Omniscience
- Bhagavad Gita
- Psychoanalysis
- Process theology
- Religion
- René Descartes
- Reform Judaism
- Sigmund Freud
- Sin
- Summa Theologica
- Hindu philosophy
- Omnibenevolence
- Bible
- Meditations on First Philosophy
- Logical consequence
- Logical truth
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.