Pantheism
Pantheism

Summary/Abstract: Pantheism faces two main difficulties. First, making a logically secure identification of a whole or totality of all things. The ex-istence of a universal set is challenged by Cantor’s Paradox. The existence of one mereological whole of space is challenged by the possibility of distinct spaces with no spatial connection. Second, given a whole, there is the question whether it qualifies as God. The identification calls for showing the whole has features taken to be distinctive of God, such as being omnipotent, omniscient, the source of everything, and most of all, most worthy of worship. I argue that pantheism cannot overcome these difficulties and that traditional theism has a rational core which can.

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