The necessary is good II
Edited for an entry on academia.edu on November 11, 2022
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1. The necessary must exist.
2. God is necessary.
3. God's plans are necessary.
4. The contingent exist.
5. The necessary supersedes the contingent.
6. Human beings are contingent.
7. Human being's plans are contingent.
8. Human being's needs are contingent.
Therefore, the suffering of the contingent is permissible.
God by infinite nature, is not obligated or compelled, to create anything finite. God does have significant free will within divine nature. His plans reflect divine nature. I am stating that God's plans must occur and therefore are necessary.
It could be stated that it is a weaker sense of necessity in point 3 than points 1 and 2.
Note, I am not using syllogism as arguments.
Bibliographical reference
Preface
For whatever reason (I pray by God's leading) at about midnight this morning, my mind started pondering on my necessary versus contingent (necessity versus contingency) articles. My intent was bedtime and not writing. But, I had some ideas for clarity and there is online support for them within philosophy.
Again, I do not claim to be a classical philosopher, but rather a philosopher of religion and theologian. I do not use for example, symbolic logic as often as do many within classical philosophy. I am learning symbolic logic through my review of the Langer text, Symbolic Logic. Within philosophy, I have completed an extensive entry by entry review of Pirie's book on fallacies, and use British philosopher, Blackburn as a source, for example. But then again, most classical philosophers do not have a significant biblical studies background or doctrinal background.
Within academia, we all have our academic strengths and weaknesses.
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Necessary v. Contingent
1. The necessary must exist.
2. God is necessary.
3. God's plans are necessary.
4. The contingent exist.
5. The necessary supersedes the contingent.
6. Human beings are contingent.
7. Human being's plans are contingent.
8. Human being's needs are contingent.
Therefore, the suffering of the contingent is permissible.
God by infinite nature, is not obligated or compelled, to create anything finite. God does have significant free will within divine nature. His plans reflect divine nature. I am stating that God's plans must occur and therefore are necessary.
It could be stated that it is a weaker sense of necessity in point 3 than points 1 and 2.
1. The necessary must exist.
2. God is necessary
2. God is necessary
I would view 1,2 as within absolute necessity.
Open Edition Journals: Philosophia Scientia What is Absolute Necessity? Bob Hale 16/2/2012
Open Edition Journals: Philosophia Scientia What is Absolute Necessity? Bob Hale 16/2/2012
Cited
Absolute necessity might be defined as truth at absolutely all possible worlds without restriction. But we should be able to explain it without invoking possible worlds.
By my definition 1,2 are necessary in all possible worlds. In all possible realities.
3. God's plans are necessary.
This could be explained as relative necessity.
Cited
The standard account defines each kind of relative necessity by means of a necessitated or strict conditional, whose antecedent is a propositional constant for the body of assumptions relative to which the consequent is asserted to be necessary.
The relative necessity of (3) has as antecedent the absolute necessity of (1,2).
Further, God, within his infinite, eternal nature, would only be morally obligated to keep his revealed word, as in promises, in regard to contingent, human beings. These are documented in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament within a theistic, Christian worldview.
1. The necessary must exist.
2. God is necessary.
The necessary is good.
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1. The necessary must exist.
2. God is necessary.
3. The necessary is good.
Therefore, God is good.
CONWAY DAVID A. AND RONALD MUNSON (1997) The Elements of Reasoning, Wadsworth Publishing Company, New York.
HALE, BOB (2015) Bob Hale, “What is Absolute Necessity?”, Philosophia Scientiæ, 16-2 | 2012, 117-148.
Electronic reference
Bob Hale, “What is Absolute Necessity?”, Philosophia Scientiæ [Online], 16-2 | 2012, Online since 01 October 2015, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/743; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.743
LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. (Philosophy).
PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.
