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Showing posts with label providence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label providence. Show all posts
Monday, November 17, 2025

Towards a solution to the "God as author of evil" problem for the Thomistic model of meticulous providence

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On the Thomistic primary/secondary causation model of meticulous divine providence, when we act wrongly, God fully determines the positive a...
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Friday, November 14, 2025

An argument against the Thomistic primary/secondary causation account of strong providence

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Most people agree that one cannot have circularity in the order of explanation when one keeps the type of explanation fixed . Some like me t...
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Friday, January 18, 2019

Thomism, chance and cooperative providence

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Thomists have two stories about how God can act providentially in the world. First, God can work simply miraculously , directly producing an...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Just deserts

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The following argument is valid: (Premise) When one gets one's just deserts, one gets what one deserves. (Premise) One c...
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Thursday, November 11, 2010

History is a ripping good yarn

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If x has a great plot, then it is probably not the case that either (a) x was produced by no authors or (b) x was produced by a lar...
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