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But resolute action for the good requires that things make sense.
You wouldn?t want someone caught up in helter-skelter to work on your lawn mower or computer. Life makes sense only if you understand its basic components and how they interrelate to form the whole. Evil, on the other hand, thrives on confusion. God is not the author of confusion (1 C
readwise.io • Willard | Renovation of Heart
At first, Anscombe answers this disjunctively: she identifies several cases which are not intentional, and several other cases that are. If you ask someone “Why are you doing that?”, and they give one of a few types of answers, this establishes that the action is not intentional. Such ways of answering can include 1) “I didn’t know I was doing that... See more
Eric Wiland • Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Christian philosopher Dallas Willard describes the influence of our emotions: “Feelings live on the front row of our lives like unruly children clamoring for attention.”4 These feelings can ravage our ability to reason through a situation, especially when that situation devastatingly affects our lives. Though a logically coherent argument may be of... See more
Addressing the Emotional Problem of Evil: Why Christians Hope - Christian Research Institute
Sin is complicated. We are never a passive observer, dispensing wisdom and justice. We are part of the mess. My solution to the problem made it more complex. That’s why we can’t afford to do anything on our own.
David Powlison • A Praying Life
Theophrastus is right, and philosophically sound, to say that the sin committed out of pleasure deserves a harsher rebuke than the one committed out of pain. The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger. The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved to action by desire.