Methodologically speaking, it may be better to speak initially about the desire for knowledge being for omni-temporal knowledge rather than for knowledge of the infinite. There is still something towards-God about omni-temporal, and even if that is not apparent, it gives one a platform for exploring the desire for knowledge of God. In other words, it may be better to explore first the desire for knowledge that is God-LIKE and thereafter the desire of knowledge OF God. Thus avoiding appearing of logical leap-taking.
Here is a summary and comments on the essay Freedom and Resentment by PF Strawson. He makes some great points, and when he is wrong, it is in such a way as to clarify things a great deal. My non-deterministic position is much better thanks to having read this. I’ll summarize it in this post and respond in a later one. In a nutshell: PFS first argues that personal resentment that we may feel toward another for having failed to show goodwill toward us would have no problem coexisting with the conviction that determinism is true. Moral disapprobation, as an analog to resentment, is likewise capable of coexisting with deterministic convictions. In fact, it would seem nearly impossible for a normally-constituted person (i.e., a non-sociopath) to leave behind the web of moral convictions, even if that person is a determinist. In this way, by arguing that moral and determinist convictions can coexist in the same person, PFS undermines the libertarian argument ...
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