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cord-021113-e4ya7llm	Elliott, David	Divine omniscience, privacy, and the state	2017-02-02		.txt	text/plain	11118	515	59	If so, it seems that these traditional theologies face a moral problem: God's total observation violates human privacy in a way that seems wrong in most human contexts. We shall begin our discussion by developing further the problem of human privacy posed by traditional Jewish, Islamic, and Christian conceptions of God. As we have just mentioned, theologians in these traditions hold that God engages in a seemingly relentless form of total observation. So while omniscience may excuse God's total observation, it simply does not follow without any further argument that human privacy has not been violated, that something morally bad has not occurred. He or she could (i) accept that one or both of (1) and (2) are correct, and hence hold that total observation is always-even for God-prima facie morally wrong or bad, but then argue that some set of higher principles justifies the infringement of human privacy.	./cache/cord-021113-e4ya7llm.txt	./txt/cord-021113-e4ya7llm.txt