Not Even Philosophers Go to Hell: A Ritschlian Problem with the Justifiability of Infinite Punishment.
Scott Aikin and Jason Aleksander have recently challenged the traditional retributive doctrine of hell on the grounds that, even if we grant the Anselmian view that human sin is infinitely grave, the view that an infinite punishment is warranted for human sin is false because in order to deserve an...
| Publicado en: | Philosophia Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 609 - 628 |
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