Endurance, Acceptance, or Constitutional Gratitude: Non-Theistic and Theistic Attitudes to Suffering

Against those who think that only believers in a personal God are entitled to be grateful for their existence and for reality itself (cosmic gratitude), I show that there are non-theistic views on which everything that happens is part of an overall good order, supporting gratitude toward that order’...

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Main Author: Cohoe, Caleb ca. 20./21. Jh. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 10
Further subjects:B Gratitude
B Pantheism
B Acceptance
B Theism
B Ultimism
B local evils
B Kierkegaard
B axiarchism
B Suffering
B Stoicism
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