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Alvin Plantinga

Comments on Transworld Depravity

This is a post or two from a commenter "Ficino" here, this time taking aim at William Lane Craig and Alvin Plantinga's reliance on the concept of transworld depravity. Over to him, with anything I say in square brackets:Since Wm. Lane Craig follows a version

Some Thoughts on Hsiao's Perverted Faculty Argument

The Perverted Faculty Argument (PFA) is a strand of Thomistic (Thomas Aquinas) thinking that is intertwined with Natural Law Theory (NLT) of which I have been blogging lately. I was challenged by Vincent Torley recently to, if I was going to attack the PFA (as I have done here and

Deconstructing Aquinas’ Fifth Way: Sup-Optimal Nature

Ficino (commenter here at ATP with a great interest in Thomas Aquinas) has kindly produced a critique of Aquinas’ Fifth Way, as famously exhibited in Summa Theologiae. This will be split into four parts. This is the third part, the first part (on the preliminaries) can be found here; the

Deconstructing Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The First Fallacies

Ficino (commenter here at ATP with a great interest in Thomas Aquinas) has kindly produced a critique of Aquinas’ Fifth Way, as famously exhibited in Summa Theologiae. This will be split into four parts. This is the third part, the first part (on the preliminaries) can be found here, the

Deconstructing Aquinas’ Fifth Way: The Argument

Ficino (commenter here at ATP with a great interest in Thomas Aquinas) has kindly produced a critique of Aquinas’ Fifth Way, as famously exhibited in Summa Theologiae. This will be split into several parts. This is the second part, the first part (on the preliminaries) can be found here. Today,

Deconstructing Aquinas’ Fifth Way: Governance of the Universe - Preliminaries

Ficino (commenter here at ATP with a great interest in Thomas Aquinas) has kindly produced a critique of Aquinas' Fifth Way, as famously exhibited in Summa Theologiae. This will be split into several parts. Thomas Aquinas set forth arguments for God’s existence in many places across his vast

divine foreknowledge

Divine Foreknowledge, Time, Free Will and Thomism

This is effectively a guest post by Ficino, commenter and sometimes contributor here at ATP. Massive thanks to him as I need as much help as I can get these days! I and Ficino have written about this topic previously, linked below. These were long comments that originally appeared at

Beards and the Perverted Faculty Argument

Here is the third and final part in a series of pieces by regular erudite commenter Ficino (the first part can be found here, the secon here). This series will be looking at Natural Law Theory in its historical context. Over to Ficino: III. Beards and the Perverted Faculty Argument

On the Veiling of Virgins: Continuing To Critique Tertullian

Some Early Natural Law Arguments: Faculties, Functions and Organs (part II) Here is the second part in a series of pieces by regular erudite commenter Ficino (the first part can be found here). This series will be looking at Natural Law Theory in its historical context. Over to Ficino: 1.

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Some Early Natural Law Arguments: Faculties, Functions and Organs

Here is the first part in a series of pieces by regular erudite commenter Ficino. This series will be looking at Natural Law Theory in its historical context. Over to Ficino: 1. Tertullian On the Soldier’s Wreath (c. 211 CE) In 211 C.E., Roman emperor Septimius Severus died