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- Title
Ordinary morality does not imply atheism.
- Authors
Ryan Byerly, T.
- Abstract
Many theist as well as many atheist philosophers have maintained that if God exists, then every instance of undeserved, unwanted suffering ultimately benefits the sufferer. Recently, several authors have argued that this implication of theism conflicts with ordinary morality. I show that these arguments all rest on a common mistake. Defenders of these arguments overlook the role of merely potential instances of suffering in determining our moral obligations toward suffering.
- Subjects
ATHEISM; MATERIALISM; FREE thought; AGNOSTICISM; THEISM
- Publication
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2018, Vol 83, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0020-7047
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11153-016-9589-7