RE: Theistic Inclinations
May 12, 2017 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2017 at 3:20 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(May 12, 2017 at 2:51 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(May 12, 2017 at 2:47 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: [previously in response to Neo] Dude what I want and what I believe is irrelevant to the truth of the matter.
Furthermore, to follow this post up, if you believe that God knows what your future actions will be then it would be rational to conclude that you're a slave to fate too.
That depends on one's theory of time (presentism, eternalism, or something else). I haven't taken a firm position, one way or the other. In the meantime, I will continue to live and believe that things are as they seem, i.e. that my decisions are real choices.
(May 12, 2017 at 3:13 pm)Cyberman Wrote:(May 12, 2017 at 3:01 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: .. he was quoting the famous Existentialist Philosopher Jean Paul Sartre...Only up to the point at which Sartre becomes inconvenient. Then it's time for the bus.
Fair enough. Sartre had a profound impact on me early in my study of philosophy and I've retained many of his views. I still consider myself an epitimological existentialist although I have shifted to a kind of metaphysical essentialism.
