RT Article
T1 No-Fault Unbelief
JF Sophia
VO 60
IS 1
SP 91
OP 101
A1 Di Ceglie, Roberto 1971-
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1753340152
AB ‘No-fault unbelief’ can be named the view that there are those who do not believe in God through no moral or intellectual fault of their own. This view opposes a more traditional one, which can be named ‘flawed unbelief’ view, according to which religious unbelief signals a cognitive or moral flaw in the non-believer. Since this charge of mental or moral flaw causes a certain uneasiness, I oppose the former view, i.e. ‘no-fault unbelief’, with a strategy that has nothing to do with the latter. I assume that ‘no-fault unbelief’ is correct and show what consequences follow for both unbelievers and believers. I conclude that the assumption in question is superficially beneficial but deeply detrimental to unbelievers, and by contrast, it is superficially detrimental and deeply beneficial to believers.
K1 Believers
K1 Cognitive or moral flaw
K1 Flawed-unbelief view
K1 Unbelievers
DO 10.1007/s11841-020-00761-0