Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, John Hick and St Peter

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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]
	Full Idea: Hermarchus said that animal killing is justified by considerations of human safety and nourishment and by animals' inability to form contractual relations of justice with us.
	From: report of Hermarchus (fragments/reports [c.270 BCE]) by David A. Sedley - Hermarchus
	A reaction: Could the last argument be used to justify torturing animals? Or could we eat a human who was too brain-damaged to form contracts?

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / c. Religious Verification

1471	It may be hard to verify that we have become immortal, but we could still then verify religious claims [Hick, by PG]
	Full Idea: Verification of religious claims after death is only possible if the concept of surviving death is intelligible, and we can understand the concept of immortality, despite difficulties in being certain that we had reached it.
	From: report of John Hick (Theology and Verification [1960], IV) by PG - Db (ideas)

1470	Belief in an afterlife may be unverifiable in this life, but it will be verifiable after death [Hick, by PG]
	Full Idea: Religion is capable of 'eschatological verification', by reaching evidence at the end of life, even though falsification of its claims is never found in this life; a prediction of coming to a Celestial City must await the end of the journey.
	From: report of John Hick (Theology and Verification [1960], III) by PG - Db (ideas)

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification

1469	Some things (e.g. a section of the expansion of PI) can be verified but not falsified [Hick, by PG]
	Full Idea: Falsification and verification are not logically equivalent. For example, you might verify the claim that there will be three consecutive sevens in the infinite expansion of PI, but you could never falsify such a claim.
	From: report of John Hick (Theology and Verification [1960], §II) by PG - Db (ideas)

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

17593	Always be ready to give reasons for your beliefs [Peter]
	Full Idea: Be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.
	From: St Peter (21: First Epistle of Peter [c.50], 3:15)
	A reaction: This quotation is the rational theologian's standard response to pure fideism.