Response to Papers Critiquing “God’s Moral Goodness”

Journal article

This paper is a response to the critiques in Filosophia Religii 2022 and 2023 of my paper, “God’s Moral Goodness” (in Filosophia Religii 2022). I argue for the preferability of Aquinas’s way of arguing to God’s nature from the most general observable features of the world, over Anselm’s way adopted by Mark Murphy of drawing out the consequences of God being a “most perfect being”. I claimed against Vladimir Shokhin, that my probabilistic argument leads to the simplest and so most probable kin...

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Authors: Swinburne, R

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Philosophy of Religion Analytic Researches
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 22-35
• Publication date: 2023-01-01
• DOI: 10.21146/2587-683x-2023-7-1-22-35
• ISSN: 2587-683X
• Language: English
• Keywords: Epistemology; Divinity; Philosophy; Existence of God; Theism; Theology; Absoluteness; Arbitrariness; Argument (complex analysis); Simple (philosophy)