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Rethinking responsibility: An Abhidharma Buddhist view
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 111, Issue 2, Page 549-570, September 2025.Abstract If reductionism about personal identity is true, “no one ever deserves to be punished for anything they did.” I call this the Responsible Agency Challenge. This paper addresses the question: How should we respond to this challenge? My response is inspired by the famous fifth century Buddhist Abhidharma philosopher, Vasubandhu, and the ...
Monima Chadha
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Contingency in Leibniz's Philosophical Theology
Philosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2025.ABSTRACT Trying to secure a source of contingency in Leibniz's philosophical theology has been a central concern for Leibniz scholars over the past century. This article examines some of the most promising strategies on offer, including the “per se” account, the “infinite analysis” account, and the “moral necessity” account.
Dylan Flint
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Leibniz's Monadology: A New Translation and Guide [PDF]
, 2014 A fresh translation and in-depth commentary of Leibniz's seminal text, the Monadology. Written in 1714, the Monadology is widely considered to be the classic statement of Leibniz's mature philosophy.
Strickland, Lloyd
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Singularity Theodicy and Immortality
Religions, 2019 Recent advances in technology have brought humanity to a unique point in history where theodicy is no more just a religious matter but also a matter of science and technology.
Hohyun Sohn
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LITURGICAL POLITICS IN THE POETRY OF PAUL CELAN*
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 2, Page 237-255, April 2025.ABSTRACT Drawing on Celan's conception of poetry as a means of orienting the individual towards the ‘completely Other’, this paper emphasises poetry's ability to create community without reproducing exclusionary group identities. The analysis reveals a latent politics in Celan's poetry, emphasising its ability to gather disparate individuals into a ...
Lukas Hoffman
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Secularisation and Empowerment. Four Poems on Theodicy
Edda, 2018 This article analyses four 18th-century poems on the issues of theodicy and a moral world order, which were central to Enlightenment discourse and to figureheads such as Bayle, Leibniz, Voltaire and Hume.
Helene Blomqvist
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Avicenna’s Theodicy and al-Rāzī’s Anti-Theodicy [PDF]
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2019 Abstract Avicenna’s Neoplatonic account of divine providence and theodicy was hugely influential on later philosophical and religious thought in the Islamic world. However, it was severely criticised by one of his earlier commentators, the theologian-philosopher Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210).
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Theological Implications of the Simulation Argument [PDF]
, 2010 Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. We work out some of them here. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. We then develop some of the affinities
Steinhart, Eric
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CHRISTOPHER SOUTHGATE'S COMPOUND THEODICY: PARALLEL SEARCHINGS
Zygon, 2018 Christopher Southgate proposes that a theological response to the suffering that is built into an evolutionary world requires a compound evolutionary theodicy, made up of four interrelated theological positions. This article proposes a fourfold response
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Teodicėjiniai motyvai lietuvių literatūroje: universalumas ir specifika | Theodic motifs in Lithuanian literature: the universal and the specific [PDF]
Literatūra (Vilnius), 2012 Theodicy is a philosophical and theological attempt to reconcile the traditional divine characteristics of omnibenevolence, omnipotence, and omniscience with the occurrence of evil and suffering in the human and natural world.
Dalia Čiočytė
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