Kant's account of radical evil and Marilyn McCord Adams's work on horrendous evil suggest human wills are so distorted that post-mortem choices cannot bear the moral weight of eternal consequence.
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Marilyn McCord Adams(as a cited philosopher in discussions of evil and forgiveness)
A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in theology and philosophy of religion, known for her work on how God relates to human suffering and evil.
Post-mortem(as used to describe the time after someone's death)
The Latin phrase meaning 'after death'; refers to the period after someone has died.
moral weight(as used in ethics)
How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.
radical evil(Kant, Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason 6:37)
The ineradicable propensity of human reason to give priority to the incentives of inclination over the incentive of duty.