Archive for December 16th, 2007
Understanding Predestination
In (ST, I, 19, 9, ad 3) Aquinas writes: The statements that evil exists, and that evil exists not, are opposed as contradictories; yet the statements that anyone wills evil to exist and that he wills it not to be, are not so opposed; since either is affirmative. God therefore neither wills evil to be [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2007 under Philosophy, Religion.
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The Problem of Evil Redux
This time by the clever H.J. McCloskey. Consider first the following sophism: “Natural calamities do not necessarily turn people to God, but rather present the problem of evil in an acute form; and the problem of evil is said to account for more defections from religion than any other cause.” (Critiques of God, 210) But, [...]
Posted: December 16th, 2007 under Philosophy, Religion.
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