Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    Whether Abraham was legitimately obeying God or was a del... — Carmelics
    Home/Religious Experience
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Whether Abraham was legitimately obeying God or was a deluded would-be murderer must be decided as a matter of individual religious faith

    Free Will & ForeknowledgeReligious Experience
    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.
    1 reason for
    2 reasons against

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Public reason cannot decide whether Abraham's act was legitimate obedience to God or murderous delusion
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.When public reason cannot resolve a question, individuals must decide for themselves
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    2 perspectives
    Reason against 1 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Moral obligations against child murder are rationally accessible and override claimed divine commands, as Kant argued in 'The Conflict of the Faculties'.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.A command requiring an agent to violate universalizable moral law cannot be authenticated as divine, regardless of subjective religious conviction.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reason against 2 of 2
    ?
    • 1.Public reason can establish that no epistemic criterion reliably distinguishes genuine divine command from psychotic delusion in first-person experience.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.When individual faith cannot be distinguished from delusion by any intersubjective standard, defaulting to individual judgment maximizes harm risk rather than resolving it.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.

    Topics

    Religious ExperienceFree Will & Foreknowledge

    Connections

    1 topic

    Democracy & Governance2 linked

    Related

    A command requiring an agent to violate universalizable moral law cannot be auth...Moral obligations against child murder are rationally accessible and override cl...Public reason can establish that no epistemic criterion reliably distinguishes g...Public reason cannot decide whether Abraham's act was legitimate obedience to Go...
    +2 moreShow less
    When individual faith cannot be distinguished from delusion by any intersubjecti...When public reason cannot resolve a question, individuals must decide for themse...

    Similar

    Public reason cannot decide whether Abraham's act was legitimate obedi...87%Abraham's obedience to God's command cannot be adjudicated by public r...73%The contradiction between faith and reason was so deeply rooted in Bay...72%Bayle uncompromisingly exposed the contradiction between faith and rea...72%

    Source

    AI-extracted1/3 agreementValid
    SEP: kierkegaard
    View source passageHide passage
    From Kierkegaard’s religious perspective, however, the conceptual distinction between good and evil is ultimately dependent not on social norms but on God. Therefore it is possible, as Johannes de Silentio argues was the case for Abraham (the father of faith), that God demand a suspension of the ethical (in the sense of the socially prescribed norms). This is still ethical in the second sense, since ultimately God’s definition of the distinction between good and evil outranks any human society’s
    Extraction notes

    Validity: Extracted via Max plan + API grounding/validity checks

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    3 (1 for, 2 against)
    Edits
    1 edit