/lit/ - Literature

>>20338145
I can see the zoomer interest in Christianity creating a renaissance of Plantinganian thought. Plus now that Tradcath and Orthodox larpers have been called out as such, Calvinism is the next logical sect to move on to.

*utterly destroys the problem of evil*
nothing personal kiddo

read Plantinga

are they going to canonize him?

>>16866915
Of course he does.

>So if Dawkins proposes that God's existence is improbable, he owes us an argument for the conclusion that there is no necessary being with the attributes of God—an argument that doesn't just start from the premise that materialism is true. Neither he nor anyone else has provided even a decent argument along these lines; Dawkins doesn't even seem to be aware that he needs an argument of that sort.
https://operation513.blogspot.com/2008/09/dawkins-confusion.html

This knock-off Abraham Lincoln impersonator is wrecking things I've been assuming since adolescence. I need him to stop.

What does /lit/ think about based Alvin Plantiga?

For me it is the Plantman.

>>15654873
While this is a horrible phenomenon, the quality of a degree has lowered significantly, particularly since it's become the standard path for upwards social mobility. It's equally bad that shitty humanities degrees are handed out like candy. That's what has devalued the humanities degree. People no longer see a virtue in studying the humanities, it's just a 3-4 year sidequest before your real life begins. STEM at least serves a practical purpose which most humanities do not. Even when people defend the humanities they never justify their degree by saying something like "my history degree was a good thing, because I learned history, and history is important." They'll always say something like, "you should study the humanities because it equips with a disposition or a set of skills that can be applied to many different situations." This only reinforces the fact that there is almost no virtue in actually studying the humanities today. Studying the humanities isn't actually about learning the humanities, it's about socialising yourself for a particular kind of middle-to-upper-class existence.

I for one welcome the collapse of the bloated university system. Private institutions and individual curiosity will still exist. Their scholarship will be much more intellectually curious and productive than the current manufactured enthusiasm. University degrees went to shit when we decided that everyone needed to have one.

Belief in God can be rational and justified even without arguments or evidence for the existence of God.

>solves the problem of evil

Now apply the same principle to cognition.
Read Alvin Plantinga.
https://youtu.be/PwE_D9GUC0s

>>10136031

Plutarch's life of Lycurgus
Plato's Crito, Phaedo and Apology of Socrates
The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
The Alchemy of Happiness by Imam Al Ghazali
The Parliament of the Birds by Fariduddin Attar

Alvin Platinga