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Forgive, Because You Were Forgiven
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophical orthodoxy has it that forgiveness is always discretionary—a gift we are free to extend to those who wrong us, but one that we are never morally required to offer. I dispute this orthodoxy, arguing that forgiveness is sometimes obligatory, even though wrongdoers can never demand or otherwise extract it from us.
Abraham Mathew
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Philosophical Theology and Indian Versions of Theodicy [PDF]
, 2010 Comparative philosophical studies can seek to fit some Eastern patterns of thought into the general philosophical framework, or, on the contrary, to improve understanding of Western ones through the view "from abroad". I try to hit both marks by means of
Shokhin, Vladimir K.
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International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Objectives For English, the validated part of Psychedelic Experience Scale (PES48) is a four‐factor structure called the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30). The other validated part of the PES48 consists of four more factors: two more mystical factors (paradoxicality and connectedness, which together with the MEQ30 form the MEQ40), and ...
Kurt Stocker +8 more
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Animals and the Problem of Evil in Recent Theodicies [PDF]
, 2009 This paper critically evaluates the theodicies of John Hick, Richard Swinburne and process theism regarding animal suffering and evils. The positions of Hick and Swinburne are based on false empirical assumptions, e.g., animals do not suffer.
Maller, Mark
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A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 145-153, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 21-36, March 2026.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Journal of Genetic Counseling, Volume 35, Issue 1, February 2026.Abstract Logotherapy is a psychological approach originated by Viktor Frankl, shaped by the thesis that meaning can be discovered even in the most tragic of human circumstances, and through a human's will‐to‐meaning, that individuals have both freedom and responsibility to discover meanings in the moment and ultimate meanings from their unique ...
Nour Chanouha +5 more
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Does Emergence Help in Defending Religious Belief? [PDF]
, 2003 The concept of emergence has gained some popularity\ud in the philosophy of mind and in metaphysico-epistemological\ud explorations of our current scientific worldview. This\ud concept is used to indicate that the �higher� levels of reality\ud (e.g.,
Pihlström, Sami
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Wagering Against Divine Hiddenness [PDF]
, 2016 J.L. Schellenberg argues that divine hiddenness provides an argument for the conclusion that God does not exist, for if God existed he would not allow non-resistant non-belief to occur, but non-resistant non-belief does occur, so God does not exist.
Jackson, Elizabeth
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Knowledge and the Objection to Religious Belief from Cognitive Science [PDF]
, 2011 A large chorus of voices has grown around the claim that theistic belief is epistemically suspect since, as some cognitive scientists have hypothesized, such beliefs are a byproduct of cognitive mechanisms which evolved for rather different adaptive ...
Clark, Kelly James, Rabinowitz, Dani
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