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唐突想起读过的关于笛卡尔思想的论述片段(来自宗教哲学相关书籍,所以会很简略(?)
There is scholarly controversy about what Descartes' views on the subject are (see Curley 1984). There is one defensible interpretation, however, that goes like this. God's omnipotence extends even over what we call the necessary truths. God has it in his power, for example, to make the sum of 2 and 3 not equal to 5. On this interpretation, every proposition is, from the point of view of God's power, metaphysically contingent. Yet God also made us so that, given our cognitive constitution, it is epistemically necessary for us that 2 + 3 = 5. That is, we are incapable of conceiving what it would be like for the sum of 2 and 3 not to equal 5. Inasmuch as every proposition is metaphysically contingent, God's power over what propositions would be true is not constrained in any way. The firm belief we creatures have that some truths could not have been otherwise than what they are is a consequence not of their metaphysical necessity—for there is no such thing—but rather of their epistemic necessity for us.
If Descartes' motivation is to make God master of the modal economy, then I think we must conclude that he has failed. For on the account just sketched, there remain metaphysical necessities over which God has no control.
随便说说扼要的地方的话,大概就是“认识上的必然”和”形而上的偶然“的区别吧,即当人的认识能力认定一个命题为必然时(这人举得是数学例子,可能因为这玩意在前面被归类为必然命题(necessary property))这不是形而上的必然的结果(或者说流溢),而是形而上的偶然的结果。这种说法的目的是为了维护”神是完全自由的“,或是”全能的“这一属性。但在一些其他的方面还是存在一定的缺陷,例如顺着阿奎那的宇宙论论证(cosmological argument)莱剖析的话,当我们断言一个偶然的时候,这个命题一定是被导致的(不可能是无原因的),因此在这里或许还有着一个”形而上的必然“在辖制着”形而上的偶然“(也就是神这一存在)。
不过阿奎那小弟的宇宙论论证能不能管到这个笛卡尔身上就不太好说了(
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