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Cartesian Certainty and the Infinity of the Will [PDF]
, 2004 This paper interprets Descartes\u27 conception of certainty as most fundamentally a function of the human will, controlling the cognitive encounter with the ...
Cosgrove, Joseph K.
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Leibniz, the Young Kant, and Boscovich on the Relationality of Space [PDF]
, 2016 Leibniz’s main thesis regarding the nature of space is that space is relational. This means that space is not an independent object or existent in itself, but rather a set of relations between objects existing at the same time.
Shimony, Idan
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This contribution discusses Leibniz’s conception of faith and its relation to reason. It shows that, for Leibniz, faith embraces both cognitive and non-cognitive dimensions: although it must be grounded in reason, it is not merely reasonable belief ...
Antognazza, Maria Rosa
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Religion and mental health: a narrative review with a focus on Muslims in English-speaking countries. [PDF]
BJPsych Bull, 2021 Ibrahim A, Whitley R.
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Where the Conflict Really Lies: Plantinga, the Challenge of Evil, and Religious Naturalism [PDF]
In this paper I argue that, although Alvin Plantinga’s Felix Culpa theodicy appears on only two pages of his recent book Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion and Naturalism (2011) (i.e.
Burns, Elizabeth
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Evil as Privation and Leibniz's Rejection of Empty Space [PDF]
, 2016 I argue that Leibniz's treatment of void or empty space in the appendix to his fourth letter to Clarke conflicts with the way he elsewhere treats (metaphysical) evil, insofar as he allows that God has created a world with the one kind of privation (evil),
Puryear, Stephen
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Evil, Freedom and Heaven [PDF]
, 2018 By far the most respected response by theists to the problem of evil is some version of the free will defense, which rests on the twin ideas that God could not create humans with free will without them committing evil acts, and that freedom is of such ...
Cushing, Simon
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Pursuing Pankalia: The Aesthetic Theodicy of St. Augustine [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter summarizes Augustine’s often-neglected aesthetic theodicy that balances his metaphysical definitions of evil and human agency against the ultimately beautiful story Augustine sees God, as the author of all Creation, writing. First, Augustine’
Holdier, A. G.
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From Darkness into Light? Reflections on Wandering in Darkness [PDF]
, 2012 McNaughton, David
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