On St. Isaac The Syrian’s Argument Against Divine Retribution

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J. Wessling
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Many theists maintain that God punishes humans retributively, whereby God intentionally harms those punished as their sins deserve, without also aiming qua punishment to contribute to the immediate or ultimate flourishing of those punished, or to the flourishing of some third (human) party. By contrast, St. Isaac the Syrian in effect contends that such an understanding of divine retribution is incompatible with a plausible understanding of God’s initial creative purposes of love and is thus untrue. In this paper, I present and substantially build upon Isaac’s contention, and I defend the resulting developed argument as a good argument worthy of further consideration.
论叙利亚人圣以撒反对神的报应
许多有神论者坚持认为,上帝惩罚人类是报复性的,上帝故意伤害那些受到惩罚的人,因为他们的罪是应得的,而惩罚的目的并不是为了促进那些受到惩罚者的立即或最终繁荣,或促进第三方(人类)的繁荣。相比之下,叙利亚人圣艾萨克实际上认为,这种对神的报应的理解与对上帝最初创造爱的目的的合理理解是不相容的,因此是不真实的。在这篇论文中,我提出并在很大程度上建立了Isaac的论点,我为由此形成的论点辩护,认为这是一个值得进一步考虑的好论点。
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