Timeline for Would an extremely unified being be able to issue more than one particular command?
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| Oct 1, 2023 at 7:22 | comment | added | Professor Sushing | As I read the first paragraph, I thought 'I wonder if Kristian wrote this'! I have upvoted for its sheer Kristianishness. | |
| Oct 1, 2023 at 6:39 | answer | added | Dheeraj Verma | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 1, 2023 at 3:03 | answer | added | Fuzzy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 10, 2023 at 12:08 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Starting from "Let there be light", and because everything is convertible to and from light, I imagine that one single command to start things off with a bang would be sufficient (and all the rest without it would never be enough). Consider Vivekacudemani #515 | |
| Sep 10, 2023 at 10:25 | comment | added | Conifold | I think the distinction is part of the problem. Deriving is what Kant's discursive intellect does, because its way of grasping is to dissect and assemble. Intuitive intellect intuits the whole at once, general/specific, direct/indirect are indistinct to it. The one command individuates and specializes only as it relates to the multiplicity of creatures and contexts, but it is not like discursive creatures can grasp the source, classify it as general/specific, and then emulate its relating by their deriving. No multiple commands are issued, general or specific, yet both kinds are received. | |
| Sep 10, 2023 at 4:53 | comment | added | Hudjefa | Logic, high quality, detected! Hats off to you. | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 19:04 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | @Conifold I also had the multiple formulations of the CI in the back of my mind, or the Sheffer stroke even. I think I need to distinguish, "One general command directly, which indirectly appears in multiple particular commands for us," from, "One specific command from which nothing else can be derived, a command for an exactly specific action then, that is," either of which might be taken as acceptable for whichever strands of simplicitarianism (among other things). | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 17:22 | comment | added | infatuated | There's a Sufi doctrine that says all God's commands emanate from one command and similarly all His creations emanate from one. | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 16:53 | comment | added | Conifold | From whose perspective? Recall the Trinity and eternity. Who is to say that the one command will not be "particularized" into many by discursive creatures who perceive one as three and actus purus as succession. "Plurality of divine ideas... exist indistinct in act in God, and are known by him in all of their diversity in a single act of comprehension or intuition corresponding at once to the simplicity of the divine nature and to the multiplicity of its relations to creatures," Emery. | |
| Sep 9, 2023 at 15:51 | history | asked | Kristian Berry | CC BY-SA 4.0 |