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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
