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Hell and divine reasons for action
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Hell and divine reasons for action

KYLE SWAN
Religious studies, Vol.45(1), pp.51-61
02/04/2009
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12741/rep:10716

Abstract

Escapism, a theory of hell proposed by Andrei Buckareff and Allen Plug, explicitly relies on claims about divine reasons for action. However, they say surprisingly little about the general account of reasons for action that would justify the inferences in the argument for escapism. I provide a couple of plausible interpretations of such an account and argue that they help revive the ‘Job objection’ to escapism that Buckareff and Plug had dismissed.

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