Well, if you're going to give up that easily then I will be forced to admit that there are a lot of important similarities between religions as well. ...
Well I don't know how long it's been seen you read Nagel's book, but I think Hick does the same thing. So maybe we want to say that Hick is "viewing t...
It's just hard to take you seriously when you compare this rain example or your jumping jacks example to Gideon. It's like you're not even trying. The...
- Yes, good points. :up: --- Well, would we agree that Hick has attempted to eclipse first-order religious claims? It is in that way that it mirrors N...
I mean, you are making implausible claims and then refusing to provide arguments or reasons for those claims. This is a philosophy forum, last I check...
...but just read this back to yourself. You're a troll, and what you're doing here is trolling, and we know you're a troll, and we know that there is ...
- It seems to me that the simpler answer is to just note the fact that only the tiniest percentage of religious people have stressed an apophatic appr...
Sure. A third-person example has already been provided: link. Feel free to address it. (I won't "make it personal," no. That is a terrible approach in...
- Someone who has interacted with God on a number of occasions is similarly situated to the child. Your objection here is that one cannot have knowled...
Okay, I agree with that. And what I am interested in is the basic rational idea—apart from moral considerations—that if someone claims to be supernatu...
Yes, and it is also a form of the "No True Scotsman" fallacy. Apparently Janus thinks that 98% of religious believers are hopelessly mistaken when the...
I actually don't think ' absolute prohibition on asking for signs is Biblically tenable. In the Bible asking for a sign is one of those things that ca...
While Hick is far and away more coherent than anything that is occurring in this thread, I would still argue that he represents little more than an ac...
No? Isn't everybody trying to "rule America"? Isn't it becoming commonly accepted that so-called "liberal neutrality" was always farcical? There is a ...
If God can only be thought of as a wholly unknowable entity, then how is it that billions and billions of people across the world think they know thin...
I already gave the scenario <here>. They didn't see it. And why wouldn't that method also apply to God? Again: What you are doing is trying to minimiz...
- I have seen no evidence that supports your claim that we are not self-movers. I have seen evidence which supports my position that we are self-mover...
You here commit the error I outlined in your own words: The logical conclusion of these two sentences is, "Therefore, we cannot say that there is a Go...
Do you? You are mistaken to claim that, <If we are self-movers, then we choose to come into existence>. You are mistaken to claim that, <If we are sel...
Free will is the traditional answer to the question you pose in the OP. Something with free will is a self-mover, and that is why culpability attaches...
- This goes directly back to my original post that @"Janus" papered over: . That is how I would want to begin answering this premise underlying Janus'...
- If we believe that someone or something does not choose or act with free will then we do not hold them morally culpable for those choices or acts. F...
Then what is the reasoning underlying your argument? It seems pretty clear to me that it is what I laid out, but if you reject that interpretation the...
You said, "...when God is posited there are things about God which never are explained (and can’t be) and this affords naturalism an equal footing." H...
There are often problems in arguments such as the OP's, such that "supernatural" (or non-natural) is effectively defined out of existence, and many re...
But what is the argument, here? Is it, <If we cannot say how X has done Y, then we cannot say that X has done Y>? This relates to what might be called...
There was a recent debate between Ben Shapiro and Alex O'Connor. I only watched a few minutes, but one of Shapiro's arguments was the exact opposite o...
When Oppy speaks of the "theory" of theism he is clearly construing theism as a hypothesis. Which is to say nothing else than that the simpler theory ...
Whether or not the disagreement is systematic, they will reliably learn that they are mistaken once they begin to see the problems in their own accoun...
To disagree is not necessarily to identify a contradiction. It is harder to ignore a putative contradiction than it is to ignore a disagreement. At th...
One can discover that they are bad at reasoning by bumping up against contradictions in their own thinking. This happens most obviously when others ca...
See the discussion between Bishop Robert Barron and William Lane Craig on divine simplicity. In his response Craig explicitly targets the Thomistic vi...
The idea of a "perfect simulation" always presents wrinkles because it contains within itself a contradiction. The contradiction is, effectively, that...
I don't know that you've understood Aristotle at all. For Aristotle the Ethics–Politics is a two-part work, with a common theme of happiness and human...
Boethius and Aristotle speak about living a virtuous life, not believing you are living a virtuous life. Your crucial premise in all of this is the id...
Because "living a virtuous life leads to knowledge of the true good," and someone who is connected to the experience machine is not living life at all...
Aye, and perhaps the hero in Man of Steel was not Superman but rather his father, Jonathan Kent, who sacrificed his life for the family dog. 's "idiot...
- :up: Incidentally, I would not have found Nagel's book very interesting if I hadn't first been exposed to the popular philosophies on this forum. Th...
Interesting! I was looking at another of his books which is on a similar topic, Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament. I am looking forward...
There is a great deal of secondary literature looking at this argument. To start I would suggest Ed Feser's blog entries (first, second), and Jeff Spe...
This is just one example of the way that Joshs consistently approaches reality, namely through a kind of relativism. I have been reading Thomas Nagel'...
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