Sentences with phrase «of nonmoral»

It determines the moral status of nonmoral goods and it furnishes the ultimate basis for the assessment of practice.

In short, if those dissatisfied with the classical account of nonmoral evil currently under discussion are not able to present a better world, «the (classical) theist does not have to show that it was impossible for God to create a better set of world - constituents or natural laws, or even that this is the best of all possible worlds» (IPQ 179 - 98).

Not exact matches

It is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

Plantinga, in positing «Satan and his cohorts» as the «explanation» for nonmoral evil is admittedly only attempting to defend the consistency of belief both in God and nonmoral evil.

Given the above analysis, nonmoral evils do not have to be seen as incompatible with the goodness of the classical God.

The classical response to nonmoral evil we have been discussing begins by affirming «C» omnipotence in relation to humans and then argues that there do exist good reasons to believe that such a moral world would include instances of genuine nonmoral evil and plausible reasons for assuming that such a world would have the types and amount of genuine nonmoral evil we presently experience.

A nonmoral economic system tends to create a society either of acquisitive or of collective automatons, depending on the principles relied upon to regulate economic behavior.

«The meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity» designates the common character of all such claims in distinction from nonmoral claims.

it is one thing to grant that a moral world must contain natural regularities and that some nonmoral evil is an unavoidable by - product of such regularities, but quite another thing to grant that we must have the exact types and amount of natural evil which we in fact experience in the actual world.

We can not convene the symposiasts to respond to Mr. Baer's questions, but we suspect that some of them would note that it is confusing to call knowledge of foreseeable consequences «intention,» and they might ask for clarification of, inter alia, what defines «nonmoral evils.»