• Title of article

    Hell and divine reasons for action

  • Author/Authors

    KYLE SWAN، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
  • Pages
    11
  • From page
    51
  • To page
    61
  • Abstract
    Escapism, a theory of hell proposed by Andrei Buckareff and Allen Plug,explicitly relies on claims about divine reasons for action. However, they saysurprisingly little about the general account of reasons for action that would justifythe inferences in the argument for escapism. I provide a couple of plausibleinterpretations of such an account and argue that they help revive the ‘Jobobjection’ to escapism that Buckareff and Plug had dismissed
  • Journal title
    Religious Studies
  • Serial Year
    2009
  • Journal title
    Religious Studies
  • Record number

    666107