Divine Simplicity, God’s Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse

What is it about?

Does the doctrine of simplicity pose problems to God's freedom? This article gives two different accounts of why it does not. On the one hand, scholastics thought about modality in ways that make potentially desirable distinctions easier to uphold. On the other hand, even if all everything was absolutely necessary, there are well-established views of divine freedom which might dissolve the problem.

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