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The Incoherent Root of Theological Fatalism
TheoLogicaThis paper begins with a standard argument for theological fatalism and unravels deeper dilemmas in stages, arriving at an argument that has nothing to do with divine foreknowledge or free will. I then focus on the problem of the incoherence or at least
Linda Zagzebski
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The Necessity of an Incarnate Prophet
Religions, 2023 This article aims to provide an a priori argument—termed the Flourishment Argument, for the veracity of the Christian conception of the Abrahamic religion that centres on God’s action of sending a divine and atoning prophet into the world.
Joshua R. Sijuwade
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The Inescapability of Gettier Problems
Epistemic Values, 2020 This chapter argues that any definition of knowledge as true belief + x will be subject to Gettier-style counterexamples as long as the connection between x (justification, reliability, proper function, etc.) and getting the truth is close but not ...
L. Zagzebski
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On Thinking, 2023 Is ethics all about rights and duties, or is it about living a happy, flourishing life? For millennia in the West, ethics was about the way to flourish as an individual and a community.
Linda Zagzebski
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Zagzebski’s Theory of Divine Motivation about the Relation of Religion and Morality [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 Divine Motivation theory is an ethical theory with a theological foundation, attempting to explain the relation between religion and morality in the context of Christian theology with emphasizing on neo-Aristotelian and motivation-based ethics.
Shima Shahriyari, Mohsen Javady
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THE VIRTUOUS CITIZEN: REGIMES AND AUDIENCES
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2017 The purpose of the present paper is to sketch the possibility of an audience theory specific to virtue argumentation taking as a starting point what Aristotle has to say about political audiences in the context of specific political constitutions and ...
Iovan DREHE DREHE
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New Blackfriars, Volume 104, Issue 1114, Page 726-750, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The topic of wisdom attracted much less attention in modern thought than in ancient and medieval times. However, there has been a renewal of interest in it in recent psychology and philosophy, and a variety of questions has emerged from this current work.
Paul O'Grady
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The Rule of St. Benedict and Modern Liberal Authority [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper I examine the sixth century ’Rule of St. Benedict’, and argue that the authority structure of Benedictine communities as described in that document satisfies well-known principles of authority defended by Joseph Raz.
Zagzebski, Linda
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Educational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 762-781, October 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, Kate Kirkpatrick argues that the recent return to moral exemplars in exemplarist moral theory might benefit from engaging with existentialists' use of exemplars in two ways: first, by considering the role of negative exemplars and the power of emotions other than admiration in moral formation; and second, by considering ...
Kate Kirkpatrick
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Zagzebski on Rationality [PDF]
, 2014 This paper examines Linda Zagzebski’s account of rationality, as set out in her rich, wide-ranging, and important book, Epistemic Authority: A Theory of Trust, Authority, and Autonomy in Belief.
Pritchard, Duncan, Ryan, Shane
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