‘Only without God can a human being – knowing that death is the end, that there is no hope of eternal salvation or divine justice, no chance that he will get the further goods he deserves – nevertheless accept death for himself so that others may live.’
🖊️ Erik Wielenberg, 2005
#death #eternal #sacrifice #philosophy
‘Turning one’s head from past to future, one can see how incredibly short a distance intelligent life on our planet has traveled in scientific time. If the time available is compared to a mile, our few thousand years of serious inquiry have moved us forward less than half an inch!’
🖊️ Schellenberg, J. L., 2015
#life #time #inquiry #philosophy
A friend recently challenged me, after I explained how much I struggle even with the thought of prayer, to spend time reading the Bible, and to force myself to stop, to sit with it, and to be, almost like an act of worship...
So here I am #god
📍 #london
‘It’s not surprising that religious conceptions from the Bible are so often in sync with facts in the world that trouble philosophers, when they were designed to be so!’
🖊️ Schellenberg, J. L., 2015
#facts #bible #schellenberg #philosophy
‘On this Reductionist View, persons do exist. But they exist only in the way in which nations exist. Persons are not, as we mistakenly believe, fundamental.’
🖊️ Derek Parfit, 1984
#persons #identity #reductionim #philosophy
Currently Reading:
Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe by Erik Wielenberg
#value #virtue #moralrealism #nontheism #atheism #philosophy
‘Belief in God, or in many gods, prevented the free development of moral reasoning. Disbelief in God, openly admitted by a majority, is a recent event, not yet completed. Because this event is so recent, Non-Religious Ethics is at a very early stage. We cannot yet predict whether, as in Mathematics, we will all reach agreement. Since we cannot know how Ethics will develop, it is not irrational to have high hopes.’
🖊️ Derek Parfit, 1984
#morality #ethics #god #philosophy
‘A justified belief is one that is reasonable, one that it makes sense to hold, one that is likely to be true given the believer’s evidence. Another way to phrase the idea is that the “justified” beliefs are the ones that a rational person who was seeking to attain truth and avoid error would adopt.’
🖊️ Michael Huemer, 2022
#belief #justified #true #philosophy
'Suppose that I leave some broken glass in the undergrowth of a wood. A hundred years later this glass wounds a child. My act harms this child. If I had safely buried the glass, this child would have walked through the wood unharmed. Does it make a moral difference that the child whom I harm does not now exist?'
🖊️ Derek Parfit, 1984
#reasons #persons #futuregenerations #parfit
‘...if you can’t produce beliefs at the drop of a hat, and if conscious relationship and belief really do go together, then when you don’t believe that God exists, you’re not in a position then to participate in relationship with God just by trying to.’
🖊️ Schellenberg, J. L., 2015
#belief #relationship #god #philosophy
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