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Why?
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Do you think that justice is essentially restorative rather than retributive? Or is there some other difference, or no difference at all?
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Why or why not?
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And, as a follow up, how conscious do you think animals are? Might they simply be electrochemical machines?
07 July 2018 1,501 26 View
In view of modern science, I realize that Adam could not have been the first human being. But was there still a historical Adam who served as the first theologically significant human being (i.e.,...
07 July 2018 8,881 94 View
I do not necessarily mean "proven with mathematical certainty" but merely "proven beyond reasonable doubt." For the sake of the question, establishing a belief to be properly basic (like belief in...
06 June 2018 4,829 40 View
To put it in philosophical terms, is there a feasible world where a libertarian free human has absolute power but does not become totally corrupt?
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I'm also wondering how you differentiate the two concepts.
05 May 2018 4,939 66 View
I'm interested in both personal better/worse and societal better/worse.
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I'd love to hear a variety of perspectives.
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What functions does dreaming fulfill?
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I'd love to see a rough sketch of how the task would go.
03 March 2018 2,613 30 View
Would these changes be positive, negative, or neutral?
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What would people who never suffered be like?
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This is a key question in political philosophy.
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This is a key question in epistemology.
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02 February 2018 4,052 10 View
If so, what would it be?
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Do you find their explanation of such phenomena compelling?
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02 February 2018 1,221 27 View
Why or why wouldn't you find the psychological egoist's explanation plausible?
02 February 2018 8,853 8 View
If so, give an example in which you think this is the case. If not, explain why not.
02 February 2018 7,279 22 View
How does moral philosophy differ from other disciplines that sometimes give advice, such as economics or psychology?
02 February 2018 6,226 9 View
What do you think is the best response that the hedonist can give to the problem? Is this response adequate?
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Originally published more than fifty years ago, The Courage to Be has become a classic of twentieth-century religious and philosophical thought. The great Christian existentialist thinker Paul...
02 February 2018 6,001 15 View
Why do you think such links exist?
02 February 2018 9,860 23 View
I'm interested in a variety of religious perspectives.
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Is this a strength or a weakness of the theory?
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Why might someone believe that it is? What challenges does such a view face?
02 February 2018 5,112 22 View
Why might someone think that moral claims don't fall into either category?
02 February 2018 582 24 View
Some aspects of morality are indeed legislated. So how do you determine which aspects are legislatable and which are not?
02 February 2018 4,451 35 View
Please explain the rationale for your view.
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Is it reason, intelligence, superior nature, rights, or something else?
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01 January 2018 2,609 11 View
Individual liberty would guarantee persons the right to have as many children as they wanted, while environmental protection might limit the number of children persons could have in order to...
01 January 2018 4,542 16 View
Christians often profess to follow the Ten Commandments, but the fourth commandment about ceasing all work on the Sabbath is often treated as optional.
01 January 2018 8,800 21 View
Fear of dependence on foreign oil? Fear of ecological destruction? Fear of government intrusion? Fear of economic downturn? Some other fear? Why do you think this fear troubles you more than the...
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Conversations about transforming how humans eat involves a balancing act between these two goals.
01 January 2018 8,952 6 View
What criteria can be used to make the choice?
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One could argue that it does in the following way. If God does not exist, then the applicability of mathematics to the physical world is a happy coincidence. The applicability of mathematics to...
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What does it mean to be a "steward"?
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Or do they have the freedom to resist their desires and simply act as unmoved movers?
01 January 2018 3,816 22 View
My answer is no. I would love to hear your thoughts on the question!
01 January 2018 2,737 63 View
What is the rational thing to do in a prisoner's dilemma situation?
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What reasons can be given in support of this position?
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's theory of language games maintained that each discipline has its own rules for what is true and false. Hence what is false in the field of history may be true in the field of...
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Why does your choice appeal to you?
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Should nonhuman species and ecosystems be loved as neighbors, or are neighbors exclusively human beings?
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If so, when? If not, why not?
12 December 2017 8,208 37 View
Why or why not? If so, who are some of these exemplars?
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If so, what would these circumstances be like? If not, why not?
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In Hume’s Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles (Oxford University Press, 2000), John Earman argues on the basis of the probability calculus that extraordinary claims do not require...
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Why or why not? Some philosophers maintain that science is morally neutral, while other philosophers maintain that science produces morality.
12 December 2017 3,485 29 View
Tillich wrote: "Adoration performed for the sake of man's self-glorification is self-defeating. It never reaches God" (Systematic Theology, 3:191).
12 December 2017 7,918 15 View
Logically, it makes no sense to me that some people lash out emotionally and seem incapable of rational discourse when presented with alternate views.
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Twentieth-century existentialist philosophers like Sartre and Camus argued that unless God exists, life has no objective meaning, value, or purpose. It only has subjective meaning, value, and...
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The Christian tradition has always emphasized prudence, courage, temperance, justice (the four classical virtues), faith, hope, and love (the three theological virtues).
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William Lane Craig argues that, without God, moral values would only be subjective, and there would be no ultimate moral accountability.
12 December 2017 4,502 27 View
If so, what is the difference between a just and an unjust war? If not, why not?
12 December 2017 6,406 13 View
BioLogos invites people to see the harmony between religion and science by presenting an evolutionary understanding of God's creation. Their website is https://biologos.org/.
12 December 2017 4,454 33 View
Open theists claim that God does not know counterfactuals of creaturely freedom. Some Calvinists claim that God cannot know counterfactuals of creaturely freedom, which is why God determines all...
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Prima facie, the assertion seems self-refuting, for if none of our concepts apply to God, then even the concept of ineffability does not apply to God. However, the assertion of divine ineffability...
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Empiricism? Rationalism? Constructivism? Or something else?
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Some thinkers hold that the laws of logic have existed eternally and were discovered by humans. Other thinkers hold that humans invented the laws of logic to make better sense of the world.
11 November 2017 8,648 64 View
Did humans make it true that "2 + 2 = 4" by inventing arithmetic or was it always true that "2 + 2 = 4," regardless of our existence?
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I'd love to hear examples from various disciplines.
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Are you in favor of internally regulated discipline? Increased personal spirituality? Or something else entirely?
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Mine is "Jesus: New Testament Foundations" because it empowers students to understand the historical Jesus in his first-century social, cultural, and religious context.
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I'd love to hear your thoughts!
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How would you explain it?
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Examples of sacred sites would be helpful.
11 November 2017 9,936 5 View
Can emotion ever supply knowledge? If so, what kinds? Or is emotion typically, or even always, opposed to knowledge? Why? I'd love to hear your insights!
10 October 2017 5,157 15 View
In many respects, the term "cult" is pejorative. However, some researchers want to use the term either theologically or sociologically. Theologically, a cult would be a group that claims to be...
09 September 2017 4,776 7 View
Is it to magnify God? Is it to surrender to God? Is it to cultivate emotional wisdom, such as developing inner peace and serenity and reducing our fear? A combination? Or something else?
09 September 2017 7,999 31 View
Various industries, millions of impoverished people, and many tribal cultures depend economically on the clearing of forests. Are we justified in causing economic harm to save the world's forests?...
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The glaciers have been disappearing from Glacier National Park in Montana and adjoining Waterton National Park in Canada. In 1850, Glacier is said to have had 150 glaciers; in 2006 there were...
09 September 2017 8,503 4 View
Most Calvinists who could be classified as five-point, including Calvin (obviously using "five-point" is anachronistic for him), Turretin, Edwards, Hodge, and Shedd, were at least prima facie...
09 September 2017 8,574 4 View
In Plato's Republic, Polemarchus defines justice as giving each person her or his due. How do you understand justice?
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Can you think of cases in which the law should distinguish between them?
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Does indeterminacy threaten the rule of law?
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From which laws, if any, would you exempt citizens on religious grounds?
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Lao-tzu famously said in the Tao Te Ching, "A man of the highest virtue does not keep to virtue and that is why he has virtue" (ch. 38). This seems self-contradictory. So what is he trying to convey?
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Any such reason entails no direct connection between the reason and actions for which it is a reason (for example, reasons generated by the mere fact that someone in authority has given an order).
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This principle holds that if a group of individuals participates in a rule-based cooperative enterprise, and each member restricts their liberty in ways that produces benefits for everyone, then...
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In light of current US political events, I am highly tempted to enter into a Facebook debate with persons who have dissented to what I have written. Is this ever productive?
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On the one hand, it seems that Confucianism is essentially an ethical way of life and a way of ordering society. On the other hand, it seems that Confucianism is an authentic spiritual pathway.
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I'm looking for criteria that render some violent act an act of terrorism. Should distinctions be made between terrorism and freedom-fighting? Terrorism and gang violence?
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If so, how? If cultural relativism were true, would this phenomenon make wars between societies less or more likely?
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In 2005 Stanley Tookie Williams, convicted murderer, was executed by the state of California. But many argued that he had experienced a genuine change of heart and performed many commendable deeds...
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As an evolutionary creationist myself, I'm curious to hear your thoughts regarding the statistics on those who hold young-earth views (which I judge to be scientifically indefensible). How big is...
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Many Westerners have the mistaken notion that jihad means "holy war" or is a synonym for terrorism, despite that it means "struggle" or "striving." Statistically, over 98% of Muslims worldwide...
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What are the advantages of defining the divine anthropomorphically? What are the risks of defining the divine anthropomorphically?
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If we can uncover the full range of causes, then we might be able to overcome suffering.
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The Christian philosophical theologian Paul Tillich argued that God should not be considered as a contingent being, nor as a group of such beings, but as the ground, power, and structure of being,...
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On the one hand, Taoism may be too inherently passive about government intervention in preserving security, developing the economy, and meeting the needs for health and education. On the other...
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Grammatico-historically? According to theological interpretation? According to constructive interpretation? Or something else entirely?
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It is obvious that substantive justice is moral. For procedural justice, it's not so clear, especially when procedural justice contradicts substantive justice (e.g., a mass murderer being released...
08 August 2017 9,524 6 View
For my mathematician colleagues, what is the best way to find the flashes of insight necessary to complete the proof?
08 August 2017 9,374 2 View
A tort is a civil (non-criminal) wrong that causes someone else to suffer loss or harm. Economists propose that tort law is best understood in consequentialist terms. Corrective justice theorists...
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Tigers are rapidly disappearing from India. If tigers and people cannot possibly coexist in the same area (so that either of them must be forcibly moved to another habitat), which should be forced...
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As a philosophy and religion professor, I'd love to get feedback from colleagues in a host of other disciplines.
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I use videos rarely. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
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Or are there simply contingent connections between the two?
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Consider this hypothetical scenario. Bob has taken his four-wheel-drive Jeep out into the desert to explore on a hot sunny Sunday. But his two cousins want to see him dead. Mary has put poison in...
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Is it based on utility, desert, virtue, liberty, or something else?
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Suppose someone who is duly sentenced to die got excellent legal representation except for one minor point--her lawyer dozed off for five minutes during her trial. Should this small lapse be a...
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The penumbra doctrine has been decisive in cases such as Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges.
08 August 2017 5,614 12 View
To a statistician, if there is a 95% or greater probability of guilt, this constitutes proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. But it seems that most jurors (and judges in bench trials) don’t...
08 August 2017 2,437 16 View
What is the correct theory of knowledge in the domain of law? In other words, under what conditions can we say that we legally know something?
08 August 2017 4,235 4 View
A command theory? H. L. A. Hart's legal positivism? A predictive theory? Or something else?
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Details of such a task would be greatly appreciated.
08 August 2017 8,938 4 View
Examples of how the two differ would prove helpful.
08 August 2017 4,474 6 View
What should be the law on online music piracy?
08 August 2017 9,052 4 View
I'm wondering to what extent W. D. Ross's theory provides a method for deciding what the right thing to do is in particular situations. I'm also wondering if this extent should be seen as a...
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In moral philosophy, the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing (DDA) holds that it is always morally worse to do harm than to allow that same harm to occur. But this doesn't seem obvious to me. Is it...
01 January 1970 1,201 7 View
I'm especially interested in getting mathematicians' take on this. It seems to me that if fictionalism is true, then mathematics is not a science of discovering facts about the world but a method...
01 January 1970 888 2 View
Do you see a distinction between necessary existence and contingent existence, or do you think that all existence entails contingency by definition?
01 January 1970 8,027 3 View
Modal logic is the logic of possibility, contingency, and necessity. As a philosopher, I'm interested in which scientific disciplines investigate modal logic.
01 January 1970 8,840 2 View
And how do you deal with those doubts?
01 January 1970 9,420 12 View
In the history of mathematics, many discoveries have been by polymaths who were also theologians, especially in the Islamic tradition. So I'm interested in interdisciplinary links between the two...
01 January 1970 1,886 7 View
I know that it is a position relating to the debate over abstract objects, but beyond that I don't know much. Any help would be much appreciated!
01 January 1970 4,308 5 View
A performance task? A standardized test? Or some other means? Why?
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I would love to hear examples of each.
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Theologians have both used and criticized the term. Criticism usually observes that in paganism the concept of the anger of the gods presupposes the notion of a finite god whose emotions can be...
01 January 1970 2,765 15 View
At first glance, it seems so, as people are anxious about tomorrow and make anxious attempts to provide secure places for themselves, physically and socially. I'd love to get your thoughts!
01 January 1970 7,995 13 View
I'd love to get perspectives from colleagues in religion, psychology, medicine, philosophy, and other pertinent fields.
01 January 1970 5,046 11 View
I believe that four principles for genuine spirituality are (1) increasing awareness, (2) increasing freedom, (3) increasing relatedness, and (4) increasing transcendence. Do you agree that any or...
01 January 1970 7,953 10 View
From the religious standpoint, one can explain that I can forgive after being spiritually transformed by God or the divine (i.e., regeneration in the Christian tradition), and that I should...
01 January 1970 9,980 14 View
Most people agree that discrimination on the basis of morally irrelevant traits, such as race or gender, is immoral. I'm wondering if ethical egoism endorses such discrimination, by promoting...
01 January 1970 9,676 11 View
If so, does this make it untrue and therefore unworthy of human commitment?
01 January 1970 1,703 18 View
Some theologians reason that psychotherapy cannot do this because it cannot change the structure of finitude. Do you agree or disagree with this reasoning, and why?
01 January 1970 6,373 11 View
Richard Swinburne, William Lane Craig, and Stephen Davis have argued that love means giving oneself away, reaching out to another rather than centering wholly within oneself. What are your thoughts?
01 January 1970 1,143 5 View
Do you find one of J. P. Moreland's arguments most persuasive, or is there a different argument that philosophers need to put at the top of their list?
01 January 1970 7,891 15 View
Some thinkers believe that God would never permit this to happen, leading to a potential irresponsibility toward issues of climate change and nuclear war. Other thinkers believe that God would...
01 January 1970 5,053 12 View
It might be objected that a group of free, equal, and rational people operating from behind a veil of ignorance might not necessarily agree on a set of rules to live by. It might also be objected...
01 January 1970 3,523 4 View
In other words, do you believe God knows what every possible free creature and every possible indeterministic process would do in every conceivable set of circumstances before God decides to...
01 January 1970 2,274 5 View
Most philosophers take it for granted that animals lack free will, believing that everything an animal does is determined by its genetic makeup and the input of its five senses. Do you agree or...
01 January 1970 4,822 13 View
Or does it go too far by personifying the earth and calling it divine?
01 January 1970 4,769 2 View
We can state the argument for the rights view like this: 1. Nonhuman animals are experiencing subjects of a life, just as humans are. 2. All experiencing subjects have equal inherent value. 3. All...
01 January 1970 8,672 16 View
It seems that the theories of ethical subjectivism and cultural relativism both generate contradictions. How would a subjectivist or relativist respond to this criticism?
01 January 1970 7,917 8 View
Theologians in the Abrahamic religious traditions affirm that God is just. Some have construed this justice as retributive, while others have construed this justice as restorative. The issue seems...
01 January 1970 1,576 12 View
I'd like to hear answers from colleagues in different religious traditions.
01 January 1970 4,106 24 View
Why or why not? Is it morally permissible to medicate such a person to ensure that he is sane enough for execution?
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What reasons can you provide to support your view?
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The philosopher Lewis Vaughn argues that it does in Doing Ethics, 3rd ed. (Norton, 2013).
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Suppose you try to use the Ten Commandments as a moral code to help you make moral decisions. How would you resolve conflicts between commandments?
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Most philosophers deny that animals are moral agents. However, some biologists think otherwise. What is your view and why?
01 January 1970 9,258 10 View
Kant argued that it is never virtuous to do the right thing to, say, get into heaven or avoid hell. He held that it is only virtuous to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to...
01 January 1970 9,341 11 View
Does this furnish any evidence against the death penalty?
01 January 1970 6,455 6 View
Aristotle held that moral virtues are balances between two behavioral extremes. For example, courage is the midpoint between excess (foolhardiness) and deficit (cowardice). Thus, the virtuous and...
01 January 1970 8,872 10 View
This theory asserts that the morally right action is the one covered by a rule that, if generally followed, would produce the most favorable balance of good over evil, everyone considered.
01 January 1970 6,521 5 View
I ask specifically with regard to what I consider unjust US immigration laws in light of Trump's recent actions on DACA.
01 January 1970 3,635 10 View
Suppose a human is genetically engineered to have a significant number of genes derived from animals. Would this being be alienated from the human race? Would it have full moral rights?
01 January 1970 570 18 View
Is the giving of aid a moral obligation for rich nations--or just a supererogatory act, an act over and above the call of duty?
01 January 1970 8,289 21 View
If anti-realism is true, what is the most persuasive conception of it? Reasons for your assessment would prove very helpful.
01 January 1970 3,927 3 View
I believe so. However, some think that faith must precede reason, and others think that reason must precede faith. I'd love to get your thoughts on this issue.
01 January 1970 7,295 16 View
What teachings or practices remain valuable for today?
01 January 1970 7,353 7 View
It seems to me that, for many people, religion is more of a social phenomenon than an intellectual phenomenon. (For me personally, it's the opposite.) So what factors draw someone to be part of a...
01 January 1970 8,415 10 View
Often known as the prosperity gospel, Word-Faith theology is represented by Joel Osteen, Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, Benny Hinn, Joseph Price, Creflo Dollar, and a host of other popular...
01 January 1970 5,121 8 View
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/opinion/what-jesus-can-teach-todays-muslims.html?mcubz=1
01 January 1970 2,180 6 View
It seems that the prevailing scientific eschatology postulates the heat death of the universe. Obviously, this tends toward pessimistic philosophical conclusions about the meaning of life. Are...
01 January 1970 1,132 6 View
I'm interested in both Christian and Buddhist perspectives.
01 January 1970 7,439 13 View
Classical foundationalism, Reidian/Plantingian foundationalism, or something else? Why?
01 January 1970 7,917 6 View
Is idolatry trying to raise something finite to a position of ultimacy? Is idolatry the elevation of the medium of revelation to the dignity of the revelation itself? Or something else?
01 January 1970 7,214 10 View
Do you think God's aseity is incompatible with the existence of uncreated abstract objects (e.g., laws of logic, numbers, sets, moral values, and other universals), as found in Platonism?
01 January 1970 7,820 3 View
Many Jews, Christians, and Muslims define God as the greatest conceivable being. However, some religions claim that God does not love sinners who refuse to change. Must God love sinners who refuse...
01 January 1970 1,161 18 View
These are three of the elements that make up the structure of reality.
01 January 1970 8,626 13 View
Why do you hold either a dichotomist or a trichotomist anthropology?
01 January 1970 5,976 16 View
Scripture? The history of religion? Philosophy? Culture? Experience? Some other factor or factors? If a single source, why? If a combination, why, and what weight should we give to each source in...
01 January 1970 9,831 12 View
Could God be the only independently existing reality even if the universe never began to exist?
01 January 1970 4,432 10 View
According to Jews who self-identify with each group (and I anticipate there will be multiple positions in any group), is Messiah a person? An age of peace? Or something else entirely?
01 January 1970 5,848 2 View
One could argue that any ideological spiritual pathway is suspicious of those whose religious beliefs and practices are unlike their own, intolerant of "the other," and does not account for new...
01 January 1970 4,678 11 View
I'm very interested in hearing the perspectives of colleagues from multiple religious traditions.
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