• The Failings of Sceptical Theism

  

  It’s very difficult to stop sceptical theism sliding into a more widespread moral scepticism. Ultimately, this would be morally paralysing. If sceptical theism says that ‘for all we know’, what seems bad is in fact for the best, then how are we to ever judge anything as bad? […]

  drtobybetenson

  4th Nov 2023

  Philosophy

  Anti-Theodicy, Atheism, Ethics, God, Metaethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Sceptical Theism, The Problem of Evil, Theism, Theodicy, Wittgenstein

• Sketch of Sceptical Theism

  

  This is a sketch of sceptical theism. It is only a sketch: you will have to go and consult the literature to find this view fully and better expressed in all its glorious technical detail. We are asking why a good God allows bad things to happen. If we’re not going to answer with a theodicy, another answer is available: we don’t know. But we shouldn’t be surprised that we don’t know. […]

  drtobybetenson

  11th Oct 2023

  Philosophy

  Anti-Theodicy, Atheism, God, Knowledge, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Sceptical Theism, Scepticism, The Problem of Evil, Theism, Theodicy

A Student of Socrates

Tag: Sceptical Theism