I believe that one has to take seriously his discussion in the whole section. He uses the example of the eye and the visual field to explain why there...
OK, thanks. Anyway, yes, probably using hell to make a discussion about justice isn't the best idea. Thank you! But one should have the sufficient awa...
Agreed! As I see it, the classical notion that evil is 'privation of the good' and not a substance seems to lend itself in a universalist or annihilat...
You don't really need to think about the brain in a vat scenario. You just need to concede the possibility that the 'independent reality' might not be...
Probably there is correspondence, but I don't think that we can know how the correspondence is. So, if the indirect realism you are positing is true (...
I disagree, from my immediate experience I recognize that I have a private experience. Having a private experience strongly suggests to me that I am d...
Actually the conspirational nature is not to be invoked here. One might still assume that our cognitive functions are useful, i.e. have a pragmatic go...
Yes, we can say that one can be rational and evil, in the sense that if one sincerely believes that evil actions are 'right', then doing them is consi...
I see what you mean. But my point is that even if one allows the possibility to make and commit to a 'definitive oath to evil' this alone doesn't prec...
Thanks for the response and the link, I'll read. As a short premise, I didn't change my mind. I just see more subtlety in the 'free will' defence of s...
BTW, I believe that the discussion we are having is also a very interesting way to explore what some concepts of 'justice', 'punishment' etc might imp...
A problem here, I believe, is that you are assuming that there must be some kind of correspondence of our mental constructs of the world and the world...
Thanks for the clarification, I think that I understand better now. Ok. Good points here! To me this raises an interesting question, though. I believe...
Yes, but you are still thinking within a conceptual framework which has been devised to explain the phenomena of our perspective. For instance, can we...
To be fair, no. But I think that your example of the wedding made it clear. It is like making a oath. Am I wrong? I see. But can philosophy and script...
I see what you mean, but IMO isn't enough to reject what I am saying. Consider, say, a chair. A chair certainly appears to us to be a distinct individ...
Perhaps, but it's one of the cases that the difference is actually relevant. Unless you can conclusively show that you can explain consciousness in vi...
(I was just writing this post...so I include it as an aswer to your question) In general, I think that it should be noted that I don't think here anyb...
Well, I believe that the point made here is that in MWI there is only one physical object which evolves deterministically. In a sense no interpretatio...
Sorry, that wasn't my intention but I realize that I took the discussion too far. However, I do believe that discussing about 'what is perspective-dep...
Yes, 'qualia' might well be about mind-dependent objects but they are certainly not mind-independent objects. Anyway, there is still the second sense ...
I disagree. Yes, things behave differently. But how they behave is important. A washing-machine certainly has a behavior different from a car. But nei...
Well, I believe that some properties we assign to 'external objects' are not mind-independent even in this sense. I am thinking about colours, sounds,...
Living beings, even the simplest ones, behave quite differently from non-living things. They demarcate the 'outer' and the 'inner' space, they have a ...
Ok for the ensemble. And yes, many interpretations do not involve collapse. I had to be more precise. Anyway, I would say that 'standard QM' has colla...
If I may enter in this debate about rocks, there is also the problem of how to define a 'physical object'. Yes, one can distinguish a rock from a chic...
Agreed, it seems implausible. But, of course, those who insist in the non-universalistic readings of those passages mention that there are other passa...
Great post! I wanted to make just some thoughts on this. In some of the strictest 'free-will' conceptions of hell, the unending suffering isn't due to...
Ok, I can appreciate that. But in QM the 'collapse' of the wavefunction happens during measurements. If any physical object can cause a 'measurement' ...
Hi, The problem here, in my opinion, is that if every physical object is taken to qualify as an 'observer' (which seems to be implied by your assertio...
Please note the words 'can' and 'might'. I am allowing the possibility that for some the repentance could not be accompanied by suffering. But maybe s...
Yes, I would agree that the point is to change one's mind and orient it towards the good. But still, I believe that in order to do that, arguably, as ...
If God wills to save every human being and repentance is necessary for salvation, evangelization is a way to cooperate in the process. If universalism...
Just a quick, but hopefully adequate, answer I believe that we have simply different ways to understand what a 'repentance' even in the 'active, forwa...
Ok. I try to start from the beginning. Aquinas says that one can fix his will in sin. The infinite duration of punishment is due to the fact that the ...
Ok, I am here. But unfortunately, I'll be unable to answer in the next few days. Well, the motivation would be: "I will continue to suffer if I never ...
I think that maybe yes, if one is wicked and refuses forever to change one's heart, then yeah I guess that technically speaking it is a logical possib...
Yes, I agree that it is painful. But maybe it is a necessary pain. Think of it as the pain caused by a cure for a terrible disease. For instance, if I...
No. One can say that sincere repentance is still needed to escape a state of eternal torment. But there is no 'time limit' after which repentance is j...
Just to clarify, I don't believe that denying the possibility to be perfectly culpable is denying free will or moral responsability. In fact, assuming...
Ok! I thought that the standard Catholic doctrine is just that: the orientation of the will of the damned is irreversibly fixed at death (otherwise, r...
Interesting, thanks! Ok, I think I know something about that (if I am not mistaken, St Thomas bases his arguments on St. John of Damascus' views). I j...
That's one sense, yes. Another is having the power of 'contrary choice', i.e. having the real possibility to autonomously choose an option instead of ...
Well, the reason we don't treat them in the same manner is because we assume, reasonably I believe, that children are too immature to qualify as prope...
Well I try, It's a bit complicated, I guess. Currently I would say 'none' as I am agnostic. As I said in one of my previous posts, I have a strong sym...
No worries. Pope Benedict's quote is from his encyclical Spe Salvi. Just a quick note here. I believe that questioning the ethical soundness of 'endle...
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