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The Problem of Animal Pain

A Theodicy For All Creatures Great And Small

by T. Dougherty

  • Hardback
  • 212 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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The problem of evil constitutes the greatest challenge to rational belief in the existence of God. Animal suffering constitutes perhaps the most powerful version of the problem. Considerations that render human suffering theologically intelligible seem inapplicable to animals. It is commonly held that they do not have morally significant free will, they do not have immortal souls, and they do not have a direct relationship with God. In this book, Dougherty defends radical possibilities for animal afterlife that allow a soul-making theodicy to apply to animals. He defends that animals have souls, and materialist resurrection if they don't. He then proposes that animals will be deified, and given the expanded cognitive resources to understand and embrace their place in the scheme of salvation. Along the way we get tours of probability theory, four-dimensionalism, and chimpanzee behaviour. From the split-brain experiment to the relationship between mammalian and avian brains, this tour de force challenges conventional wisdom on the theology of animals.
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Socratic Logic: Edition 3.1: A Logic Text Using Socratic Method, Platonic Questions, & Aristotelian PrinciplesThe Problem of Animal Pain

  • Author

    T. Dougherty

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    July 2014

  • Weight

    395g

  • Page Count

    212

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780230368484

  • ISBN-10

    0230368484

  • Eden Code

    4275221

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