I. Intro Benjamin Watkins of Real Atheology has presented what he calls “the Agony Argument” (which appears to draw its inspiration from Parfit’s famous Agony Argument) as an objection to a traditional privation theory of evil. It goes as follows: … Continue reading The Agony Argument and the Privation Theory of Evil: A Response to Watkins
In the recent debate hosted on the Pints with Aquinas show between Fr. Gregory Pine and Real Atheology host Ben Watkins, Watkins presented some objections to the quinque viae or five ways of St. Thomas Aquinas. One of the objections … Continue reading The Five Ways and Quantifier Shift Fallacies
In the previous post, we examined a critique of the Thomistic view of act and potency from Ben Bavar (a cohost of Real Atheology) and offered a response. Bavar maintained that potency, in order to be real, must itself be … Continue reading Resonse to Ben Bavar on Act and Potency, Part 2
Ben Bavar, a cohost of the Real Atheology Podcast, and Matthew Su, one of the admins for the Thomism Discussion Group on Facebook, have been having a back and forth on Bavar’s critique of Feser’s presentation of the argument from … Continue reading A Response to Ben Bavar on Act and Potency, Part 1
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