It cannot be fitting to blame God
This paper argues that it cannot be fitting to blame God. I show that divine immutability, even on a weak conception, implies that God's ethical character cannot change. I then argue that blame aims at a change in the ethical character of the one blamed. This claim is directly intuitive, explai...
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2023
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Year: 2023, Volume: 64, Issue: 4, Pages: 517-531 |
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