Can God write a Philosophy Book?

Finally someone gets the idea of the question....

Edited by Paul - 15-Feb-2008 at 22:41

Maybe I am not understanding properly, but I don't see any logical paradox, because I don't see any reason for a book written by an all-knowing being to
(a) Contain all knowledge
(b) Not be directed at its target audience.

The book encourages you to think in a particular way. I don't see it as a requirement of a philosophy book to contain errors. (Call me an Engineer but if the writer doesn't think its right why the hell am I reading it?)


Edited by Omar al Hashim - 16-Feb-2008 at 09:49

Retake those philosophy 101's, gentlemen.

PS- Aklothuos, being the AE's numero uno semanticist when it comes to early-Christian logic, surely you can see how fellows might be nit-picky when it comes to philosophy...

Certainly.

1- A paradox can be an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or a situation which defies intuition; the premises themselves cannot all be true together. - Wiki

2- Though no single definition of philosophy is uncontroversial, and the field has historically expanded and changed depending upon what kinds of questions were interesting or relevant in a given era, it is generally agreed that philosophy is a method, rather than a set of claims, propositions, or theories. Its investigations are based upon rational thinking, striving to make no unexamined assumptions and no leaps based on faith or pure analogy.
-Wiki

3- omniscient

/omnissint/

  • adjective knowing everything.

  — DERIVATIVES omniscience noun omnisciently adverb.

  — ORIGIN Latin omnisciens, from scire ‘to know’. (In monotheistic religions, this ability is attributed only to God.)-Oxford English Dictionary

4- If God (and only God) knows everything and philosophy is a method for the non-omniscient of questioning the unknown, then by his very own omniscience, God is incapable of philosophizing (applying a rational method of questioning) because he already knows everything that has, is, and will be.

5- Ergo, the initial question, if put into an assertive statement (i.e. "God can write a philosophy book."), constitutes a logical paradox by putting two contradictory concrete ideas into a single sentence or thought. Since God is omniscient and therefore cannot question that which he already knows (which is everything), the statement is paradoxical.

Hope that helps, buddy.




Edited by Brian J Checco - 16-Feb-2008 at 19:02

Brian J Checco wrote: 2- Though no single definition of philosophy is uncontroversial, and the field has historically expanded and changed depending upon what kinds of questions were interesting or relevant in a given era, it is generally agreed that philosophy is a method, rather than a set of claims, propositions, or theories. Its investigations are based upon rational thinking, striving to make no unexamined assumptions and no leaps based on faith or pure analogy. -Wiki

Even in the most general definition, philosophy is a method of inquisition. An omniscient being has no need to apply an inquisitive method, since everything is already known to said-being. This really isn't so terribly difficult to grasp, I hope. Quite a simple notion, really.

Haha, I believe that would be a topic for a different thread, Omar. 

I don't believe there is enough paper in the world for such a task Paul. 

God can do what ever it likes


not going to refere to God as He thats sexist and God has no gender

Are you suggesting god's essay couldn't be improved by us?

Seeing as how essays are subjective I was under the impression that "improvement" of one would be an artificial improvement. Since I know when I finish an essay I'm perfectly content that it needs no improvement at all.

Are you suggesting god's essay couldn't be improved by us?