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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 12:51 |
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1. Evil = undeserved suffering. 2. Suffering names a diachronically instantiated property. 3. The stage theory of persistence = the view we are just instantaneous temporal parts of larger perduring wholes (worms). 4. If (3) is true, then we can only have a diachronically instantiated property F, in virtue of having some temporal counterparts that together instantiate F. 5. Let F = the property being a being that is suffering. 6. If (3) is true, then we can only have the property being a being that is suffering in virtue of having some temporal counterparts that together instantiate the property being a being that is suffering. Conclusions: If stage theory is true, then if suffering is a diachronically instantiated property, it follows that we can only suffer in virtue of having temporal counterparts which together instantiate the suffering. But those temporal counterparts (being themselves instantaneous entities) will likewise have the property of being a being that suffers in virtue of having temporal counterparts of the relevant sort, and so on. If this is correct then it carries the strange implication that all evil is relational, and extrinsic, since no person (i.e. no person-stage) exists long enough to instantiate suffering. The...
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