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| | |  Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Arguments against determinism
Determinism - Argument from morality.
Some critics of determinism argue that if people are assumed incapable of independent choice (free will) there can then be no rational basis for morality, and therefore some aspects of criminal and civil jurisprudence and legislation appear irrational and unjust. How, they ask, can one be punished for an involuntary action? In order to maintain the integrity of social institutions that rely in part upon holding people responsible for their actions, it becomes necessary in their eyes to deny determinism, at least as fa ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Arguments against determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Clark Pinnock - Education and Career Pinnock was born in Toronto, Canada on February 3, 1937. He grew up in a liberal Baptist congregation, Pinnock recounts that as a child he had little interest in the church. Even though he was brought up in Liberal Christianity, he later became part of the broad Evangelical tradition, and has explored Reformed, Arminian and Pentecostal streams of thought.
Pinnock describes his shifts in thought as a pilgrimage: "So I do not apologize for admitting to being on a pilgrimage in theology, as if were in itself some kind of weakness of inte ...
See also:Clark Pinnock, Clark Pinnock - Education and Career, Clark Pinnock - Critical Assessments, Clark Pinnock - Bibliography Read more here: » Clark Pinnock: Encyclopedia II - Clark Pinnock - Education and Career |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Arguments against determinism
Determinism - Argument from morality.
Some critics of determinism argue that if people are assumed incapable of independent choice (free will) there can then be no rational basis for morality, and therefore some aspects of criminal and civil jurisprudence and legislation appear irrational and unjust. How, they ask, can one be punished for an involuntary action? In order to maintain the integrity of social institutions that rely in part upon holding people responsible for their actions, it becomes necessary in their eyes to deny determinism, at least as fa ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Arguments against determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism
Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause.
Since the early twentieth century when astronomer Edwin Hubble first hypothesized that red shift shows the universe is expanding, prevailing scientific opinion has been that the universe started with a Big Bang, and therefore has a finite age. Different astrophysicists hold different views about precisely how the universe originated (Cosmogony), but a consistent viewpoint is that scientific determinism has held at the macroscopic level since the universe came into being.
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - A multi-deterministic position One approach to determinism is to argue that materialism does not present a correct understanding of the universe, not because it is wrong in its general picture of the determinate interactions that occur among material things, but because it ignores the souls of human beings. The soul is understood to be an autonomous agent of choice that has the power to control the body but not to be controlled by the body. Therefore it stands to the activities of the individual human body as does the creator of the universe to the universe. The creator o ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - A multi-deterministic position |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - The nature of determinism The exact meaning of the term "determinism" has historically been subject to various interpretations. Some view determinism and free will as mutually exclusive, whereas others, labelled "Compatibilists", believe that the two ideas can be coherently reconciled. Most of this disagreement is due to the fact that the definition of "free will," like determinism, varies. Some feel it refers to the metaphysical truth of independent agency, whereas others simply define it as the feeling of agency that humans experience when they act. For example, Da ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - The nature of determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - The nature of determinism The exact meaning of the term "determinism" has historically been subject to various interpretations. Some view determinism and free will as mutually exclusive, whereas others, labelled "Compatibilists", believe that the two ideas can be coherently reconciled. Most of this disagreement is due to the fact that the definition of "free will," like determinism, varies. Some feel it refers to the metaphysical truth of independent agency, whereas others simply define it as the feeling of agency that humans experience when they act. For example, Da ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - The nature of determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism
Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause.
Since the early twentieth century when astronomer Edwin Hubble first hypothesized that red shift shows the universe is expanding, prevailing scientific opinion has been that the universe started with a Big Bang, and therefore has a finite age. Different astrophysicists hold different views about precisely how the universe originated (Cosmogony), but a consistent viewpoint is that scientific determinism has held at the macroscopic level since the universe came into being.
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - A multi-deterministic position One approach to determinism is to argue that materialism does not present a correct understanding of the universe, not because it is wrong in its general picture of the determinate interactions that occur among material things, but because it ignores the souls of conscious beings. By 'soul' in this context is meant an autonomous immaterial agent that has the power to control the body but not to be controlled by the body (this theory of determinism thus conceives of conscious agents in dualistic terms). Therefore the soul stands to the activi ...
See also:Determinism, Determinism - Philosophy of determinism, Determinism - The nature of determinism, Determinism - Determinism in Western tradition, Determinism - Determinism in Eastern tradition, Determinism - A multi-deterministic position, Determinism - Modern perspectives on determinism, Determinism - Scientific determinism and first cause, Determinism - Determinism and generative processes, Determinism - Arguments against determinism, Determinism - Argument from morality, Determinism - Determinism quantum mechanics and classical physics, Determinism - First cause Read more here: » Determinism: Encyclopedia II - Determinism - A multi-deterministic position |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - Hebrew versus Greek thought regarding God The article on God goes into greater detail regarding the contrasts between the Hebrew and Hellenic concepts of God.
In summary, however, Hebrews and early Christians had no systematic theology. They understood God to be: "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon th ...
See also:Hellenic philosophy and Christianity, Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - Hebrew versus Greek thought regarding God, Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - Geocentrism, Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - The ontological argument, Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - Modern debate regarding Hellenic Christian thought Read more here: » Hellenic philosophy and Christianity: Encyclopedia II - Hellenic philosophy and Christianity - Hebrew versus Greek thought regarding God |
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| | | | Open Theism: Encyclopedia II - Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Support for dystheism from the Bible The Bible contains several passages which pose serious questions to eutheism:
Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Call for Genocide.
In Deuteronomy 7:1-6, God orders the Chosen People to invade "seven nations" and "destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy." This is a call for genocide which clashes with the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 20:2-17 a ...
See also:Eutheism dystheism and maltheism, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Foundations of eutheistic and dystheistic belief, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Relationship to the Problem of Evil, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Corresponding Problem of Good for Dystheists, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Definition of good, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - History of eutheistic and dystheistic thought, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Support for dystheism from the Bible, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Call for Genocide, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - The Garden of Eden and The Tree of Knowledge, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Satan, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - The Tower of Babel, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - The Hardening of Pharaoh's Heart, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - The Book of Job, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Belief systems with dystheistic aspects, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Satanism, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Gnosticism, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Atheism, Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Maltheism Read more here: » Eutheism dystheism and maltheism: Encyclopedia II - Eutheism dystheism and maltheism - Support for dystheism from the Bible |
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