Divine hiddenness and the problem of no greater goods
John Schellenberg argues that God would never withhold the possibility of conscious personal relationship with Him from anyone for the sake of greater goods, since there simply would not be greater goods than a conscious personal relationship with God. Given that nonresistant nonbelief withholds the...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
2021
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Ano: 2021, Volume: 89, Número: 2, Páginas: 107-123 |
| (Cadeias de) Palavra- chave padrão: | B
Teodiceia
/ Bem supremo
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| Classificações IxTheo: | AB Filosofia da religião NBC Deus |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Theism
B Divine Hiddenness B Atheism B Problem of no greater goods |
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| Resumo: | John Schellenberg argues that God would never withhold the possibility of conscious personal relationship with Him from anyone for the sake of greater goods, since there simply would not be greater goods than a conscious personal relationship with God. Given that nonresistant nonbelief withholds the possibility of such relationship, this entails that God would not allow nonresistant nonbelief for the sake of greater goods. Thus, if Schellenberg is right, all greater goods responses to the hiddenness argument must fail in principle. I argue that there are good reasons for thinking that greater goods responses do not, for the above reason, fail in principle. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-020-09767-7 |