Philosophy PhD. Interests in early Christian history. Joking. Love trees 🌳🌲🍁. He/him.
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4 Mar 2024
Is it not the rich who oppress you? ~James 2:6
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Some have views about biblical inspiration that allow them to disagree with the human authors & also use the text to teach whatever they've decided in advance is good.
They agree the authors endorse evil & false things but say, "But I can still creatively use the text for good."
The Bible is not inspired, inerrant or univocal
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I just realized the real problem is class
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Whereas Plato, throughout the dialogues, is essentially critical, radically questioning the most sacredly held conventions of the world around him, Aristotle sets out to acquire knowledge of the way the world is, and, moreover, to explain why it is the way it is. ~Susan Okin
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The goal, to put it bluntly, is the True and the Good. The freedom we want is the freedom to find it. ~Susan Wolf
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i hate it when i ontologically commit to something that turns out not to exist
what the hell
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that a tradition did a lot to spread a view doesn’t entail that it originated the view, that it has any adequate account or justification of the view, or even that its core elements are consistent with the view
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It is, I believe, the task of ontology to draw out the ontological implications of our everyday and scientific beliefs and assertions. And the way to draw out these implications (I contend) essentially involves the method Quine has recommended. ~Peter van Inwagen
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Jun 11
Breaking: Misogynists do a misogyny.
Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. cnn.it/3S3Ar4O
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Can God guarantee that people are challenged morally, that they face difficulties in which doing what's right is hard, while also ensuring that none fail morally?
I think God can do this. The reality of moral challenge doesn't seem to me to require the reality of moral failure.
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That it amounts to revoking our freedom for God to guarantee we never fail morally is not *the* theistic answer, as though theists are all agreed that free action rules out determinism. Plenty of theists (& non-theists) deny this. There is no such thing as *the* theistic answer.
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But as soon as the wealth exceeds a certain level, it enables the owner to live from exploitation instead of his own work, modestly if he is a small rentier or entrepreneur, lavishly if he is one of the rich. ~Anton Pannekoek
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I certainly grant that you can imagine that the world is eternal. However, since you assume only a succession of states, & since no reason for the world can be found in any one of them ... it is obvious that the reason must be found elsewhere. ~Leibniz
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Must classical theists think God is a person? They can think language about befriending God, doing God's will, etc. is loose or analogical & what it gets at is loving the Good & pursuing it as an end. If so, all "befriending God" ever amounted to is something atheists can also do
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