Tag: Søren Kierkegaard

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Author
Michael Egnor
Date
October 4, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Science

Tagged
Conception (vs. perception), Divine Hiddenness argument, Fear and Trembling (book), Featured, God (evidence for God), God (nature of God), God's Hiddenness (argument), Matt Dillahunty, Nature (evidence for God), Perception (vs. conception), Søren Kierkegaard}

The Divine Hiddenness Argument Against God’s Existence = Nonsense

_{God in Himself is immeasurably greater than we are, and He transcends all human knowledge} _{Michael Egnor

October 4, 2021

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Philosophy, Science}

In my recent debate with Matt Dillahunty about the existence of God, Dillahunty invoked his favorite argument against God’s existence — the Divine Hiddenness argument. We didn’t have a chance to go into that argument in detail in the debate, and Dillahunty is unwilling to have any more debates with me (even if he’s paid, apparently). So this is a good forum to look at that argument in more detail. What is the argument for atheism from God’s Hiddenness? This is a standard form of the argument from Divine Hiddenness against God’s existence: Necessarily, if God exists, then God perfectly loves such finite persons as there may be. Necessarily, if God perfectly loves such finite persons as there may be, Read More ›

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Author
News
Date
November 22, 2020

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Anxiety, Corrie Ten Boom, Joseph Conrad, Samir Chopra, Søren Kierkegaard}

A Philosopher Writes in Praise of Anxiety

_{It is part of the ability to think about life in a human way} _{News

November 22, 2020

3

Philosophy of Mind}

Yes, you read that right. Samir Chopra (pictured) thinks that anxiety is not a pathology but part of the ability to think about life in a human way. Chopra, author with Laurence White of A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (2011), writes, Humans are philosophising animals precisely because we are the anxious animal: not a creature of the present, but regretful about the past and fearful of the future. We philosophise to understand our past, to make our future more comprehensible. The unknown produces a distinctive unease; enquiry and the material and psychic tools it yields provide relief. Where anxiety underwrites enquiry, we claim that the success of the enquiry removes anxiety and is pleasurably anticipated. Enquiry comes to Read More ›