[lit-ideas] Re: Omniscience, Omnipotence, Omnibenevolence (was: Re: 9th edition of the EB)

  • From: "LLOYD MITCHELL" <rmitchell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:12:51 -0500

To John Wager et al.:
Do you people understand this idea of omniscience - i.e., all-knowing? Do you have any questions about it? Or about anything at all? Is there any question that you really wish you had the answer to, but don't? Do you deeply, fervently *wonder* about anything at all? If so, then I don't see how you aren't privy to a knowledge that an omniscient being cannot possibly have: the knowledge of what it is to *wonder*, to be beset with a *question*.
The god, says Diotima in the Symposium, is not a philosopher: he is already wise. The wise being cannot be a *lover* of wisdom - cannot exist as driven by the overwhelming desire to become what he is not: to become wise. to *know* what he intensely recognizes that he does not know.
It seems to me, then, that there is at least one thing that the omniscient being cannot know: what it is not to know something.
Lloyd Mitchell 
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