God’s hiddenness has prompted some theists to provide an explanation for God’s silence. Such hiddenness seems to be closely tied with disbelief, which is a form of sin for most Christians, so why has God allows such conditions to prevail?
Murray intends to show that some resoltions can be made to hiddenness.
A free-will theodicy claims that [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Murray: Coercion and the Hiddenness of God
Posted in Ethics, Religion, free will, tagged divine hiddenness, free will, god, responsibility on June 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Does Divine Hiddenness Justify Atheism?
Posted in Religion, tagged agnosticism, atheism, divine hiddenness, god, love, theism on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Peterson’s paper is briefly an attack on theism from the angle of Divine Hiddenness. He says that a mother, who’s gargantuan love for her child, would not let that child suffer her absence if she could help it. And this goes for God too. He would not hide from us if we truly wanted to [...]
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
Posted in Ethics, The Good, tagged critique of practical reason, duty, happiness, Kant, morals on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Satisfaction, to Kant, is something ‘imposed upon him by his finite nature itself, because he is needy’, and this satisfaction is something relating to pleasure or displeasure. These feelings are determined by what he needs in order to be satisfied.
This problem of satisfaction is impossible to regard as law, for pleasure and desire varies from person [...]
Against the Fine-Tuning Argument
Posted in Religion, tagged bayesian argument, bradley, fine tuning, god, swinburne on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the second paper, Bradley aims to put forward a more detailed objection to the fine-tuning argument than other papers had in the past. In short, the first bulk of the paper discusses what he calls the ‘common form’ of the fine-tuning argument which appeals to the sheer improbability of the various conditions of life [...]
