PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

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14 Religion and morality Religious values and moral values Nonmonotheistic traditions R eligious traditions sanction religious v ...

304 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON time, and it appears that this notion of what individuality amounts to is preparatory ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 305 Argument 1 1 God is good is a necessary truth. 2 St Paul is good, even if true, is a contingent truth. ...

306 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Deterministic views Fatalism: determinism based on logical necessity Fatalism is the v ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 307 is, by hypothesis, logically impossible that God not exist or that God not have the nature that God ha ...

308 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON act other than as they did, think other than as they did, feel other than as they did. ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 309 Compatibilism and incompatibilism Compatibilism holds that it is logically possible that determinism b ...

310 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Relations between the positions It may be helpful in understanding these alternatives ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 311 4 One is not responsible for anything that is entailed by what one has no control over (from 2, 3). 5 ...

312 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON state A such that A obtains and such that there is a lawlike A/B connection. In order ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 313 party to the dispute will simply put forward examples that exhibit their view of the matter, and claim ...

314 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON If (R) is true, then Ruth’s golden retriever will be fed, whether Ruth feeds him or no ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 315 either Ruth does feed her dog is in fact inevitably true or Ruth does not feed her dog is in fact inev ...

316 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON Causal impossibility: State of affairs A is causally impossible if and only if A obtai ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 317 teeth gnashing and Karen gnashing her teeth, and if determinism being true is compatible with making t ...

318 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON the whole past package and only one of the logically possible alternatives is compatib ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 319 A classic analysis of this sort of freedom goes like this: Jane is free in lying to John at time T if ...

320 RELIGION, MORALITY, FAITH, AND REASON psychological, and physical capacities is required by not lying; Jane’s not lying is, ...

RELIGION AND MORALITY 321 nor compulsed to lie to John, and Jane’s lying to John at T is not irrational in the sense of resultin ...