Talk:Nick Trakakis
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Tierno's critique
[edit]The following was added by I believe Joel Thomas Tierno himself. It is probably accurate, but not appropriate on that page:
Actually, the preceding characterization of Tierno's view is incorrect. His position is that the argument from freedom of the will fails to provide an adequate explanation of moral evil on the scale that we find it distributed in the world. It is not that we cannot lay any instances of moral evil down to human freedom, it is that we cannot properly lay all the instances that we find down simply to human freedom. When a phenomenon is as widely distributed as moral evil is, human freedom alone cannot adequately account for that distribution. It does not follow from this that human freedom cannot adequately account for any instances of moral evil.
I tried to address the issue on the main page. --Vesal (talk) 11:37, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
Christian Philosopher
[edit]I'm just wondering on what basis Trakakis is listed under this heading. Considering that his most significant work is devoted to a defense of an argument that God does not exist, I would find it extremely baffling if he was in any significant sense a Christian, unless in the sense of "Christian" Atheism a la Thomas J. J. Altizer. I suppose it's not impossible that, in spite of thinking that Rowe proved God is "beyond belief" he for some reason believes in Him anyway, but without some kind of source statement I remain highly skeptical. Corbmobile (talk) 20:15, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
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