PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

142 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS action, the range of his knowledge, the scope of his power are like ours. If after caref ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 143 A Rowean needs (R); it is hard to see that (R) is correct as opposed to (R*). Let us look at ma ...

144 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS requires that makes it crucial for the critic to show that there are pointless evils. If ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 145 Chancey worlds If (P) It is logically impossible that a morally perfect and omnicompetent being ...

146 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS infer what will happen from something else God knows. So God would, even regarding chanc ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 147 Religious maturity An important topic is relevant here about which the author claims no direct ...

148 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS logically necessary condition of G’s obtaining,^34 and (ii) G’s obtaining is of sufficie ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 149 truth, then P is, if false, necessarily false). If it appears that X is a possibility, and X is ...

150 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS is that reflection about a monotheistic conception of God is a going enterprise; it is n ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 151 moral acceptability the occurrence of evils that serve to promote religious personal maturity i ...

152 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS know^39 that the context in which the evil occurred rules out R applying or we know that ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 153 disappearance of species. Connected with the second consideration is the fact that the history ...

154 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS something may have both intrinsic and extrinsic worth; then it won’t have purely extrins ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 155 sufficient reason for doing so, what follows is that doing so is something one should have a su ...

156 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS It is not clear that E4 is true. Nor is it clear that E5 is true. Suppose, simply for th ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 157 ducks (and no duck eggs or DNA) there is no duck species either. They seem typically to think t ...

158 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS (C) For any class C, if C’s having members has intrinsic worth, then for any item X that ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 159 Consider two sorts of exchange as follows: (EX) Y is permissibly interchangeable for X, where X ...

160 ARGUMENTS: MONOTHEISTIC CONCEPTIONS The answer expresses a view sometimes called speciesism, which means “unjustifiably favo ...

ARGUMENTS AGAINST MONOTHEISM 161 Conclusion Of course there are other attempts – some made, some waiting discovery – to move fro ...