Divine Simplicity in Orthodox Theology

[panokostouros]

This is also why each virtue entails every other virtue and conversely why each vice entails every other vice.

When you want to acquire the virtues, pick one and you'll quickly realize that in developing one, you'll start to work on the others. Notice too that the deeper you fall into a particular vice, like sex for example, you'll start to fall into other vices, like drugs and alcohol.

This idea of Simplicity extends to the body, too. If you wish to develop one muscle group, you'll have to develop many other muscle groups since they are all intertwined.

[moldyapple]

color values are a great point. there really is no limit to color variation. you can mix 80%red and 20% blue, but the purpleyness will change depending on the % changes.

[quasimodo]

But this doesn't explain how God must be most simple, not just simple to a degree that created things are. Are immaterial things, such as angels, just as simple as God is insofar as they are indivisible? You can't separate human nature into animality and rationality, it's simple, but it's not simple to the most possible degree, it still has the parts of genus and specific/essential difference, no?

[john-paulgies]

I didn't hear the part where the infinite traits of numbers or colors were non-composite (simple). I listened through three times.
Best I got was that these infinite relations - countably infinite for numbers, and uncountably infinite for colors - are "contained" in the particular notion of any given member of the set. This does not seem to show (at least it wasn't explicitly demonstrated) anything pertaining to simplicity vs. composition in number/color. [I dare say it more tends to suggest composition.]

[thegospelscommentary]

St Thomas has no different understanding of divine simplicity from that of the Cappadocian Fathers, that is that God is not composed of parts and everything in God is one single thing, namely the divine essence. Gallwitz's book is quite bad, and has a lot of errors.