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Category Archives: Ethics & Metaethics
Are you an essentialist or a voluntarist?
Seven questions, followed by three possible outcomes: Upon what should human (rights) laws be based? ☐Humans should stop making baseless laws (at best, the base is impossible to know) and let nature take its course. (N/S) ☐Human (rights) laws should … Continue reading
Posted in Divine Essentialism, Golden Rule
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RFG 5: How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?
Discuss in ILovePhilosophy.com: RFG: FIVE: How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? Tim Keller’s The Reason for God Book Discussion – Part 1: The Leap of Doubt FIVE: How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell? Before I even … Continue reading
RFG 2: How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?
Discuss in ILovePhilosophy.com: RFG: TWO: How Could a Good God Allow Suffering? Tim Keller’s The Reason for God Book Discussion – Part 1: The Leap of Doubt TWO: How Could a Good God Allow Suffering? From now on, along with my own … Continue reading
Leftover Legalism vs. Love
“What if… just what if people in the world can be brilliant and talented and moral and kind because people honestly have the capacity to be brilliant and talented and moral and kind? What if, whether god(s) made us or … Continue reading
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God’s Essential Nature
I was asked by Peter Harrison on Richard Dawkins’ forum to explain what God is, exactly. He took issue with the fact that God is the same as His attributes. Read on… Peter: “What” is the same as “attributes”? Watch … Continue reading
Posted in Divine Essentialism, Richard Dawkins
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Temptation
Please note I wrote this shortly after being brought back to God. There is undoubtedly room for improvement. Feedback is appreciated. Temptation I grew up as a Christian, in a Christian home. When I went out on my own, I … Continue reading
Posted in Problem of Evil & Hell
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Against Pragmatism
Pragmatism is a philosophy which makes “practical results” or utility the criterion for both what is true and what is good (according to James, truth is a species of good*). It will be shown that this philosophy is inadequate. A … Continue reading
Posted in Golden Rule
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Self and Refusing Thoughts
You feel your arms and legs. Thoughts are feelings in that thinking is a way of feeling. Thoughts are a type of sense data. Say thoughts result from chemical reactions in the brain. So, if the chemical reactions change, the … Continue reading
Posted in Problem of Evil & Hell
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On the non-duality of good and evil.
Some believe that good and evil are equal and opposite forces in constant struggle with eachother. Actually, good is the default, and evil is a privation, or absence of good. Read on… From “Introduction to Philosophy: A Christian Perspective” (Geisler, … Continue reading
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God wills it (right) because He is good — essentialism.
God’s nature, which is, granted, supernatural, is supreme over His will… check it oot… Quotes from “Intro. to Philo.” – Geisler, Feinberg… “Ethical Voluntarism – The ethical view that traces moral principles to God’s will; something is right because God … Continue reading
Posted in Divine Essentialism
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