A well-known objection to divine will/divine command moral theories is that they commit us to the view that God’s will is arbitrary. I argue that several versions of divine will/divine command moral theories, including two of Robert Adams’s versions of the DCT and my own divine preference theory, can be successfully defended against this objection. I argue that, even if God’s preferences are so...

Divine view is to industrialization a part of the process of economic development. It has been pointed out frequently enough that the concept of industrialization and commerce can well be found in the divine sources. Because all that subscribe to the divine rules of governance become Ibadah (form of worship), hence industrialization within the religious ambit is also an Ibadah. Divine messages,...

nowday with the development of different sciences, it has become clear that islam's instructions and prophet mohammad's teaching (pbuh) have been based on reason and wisdom and with the scientific studies, the philosophy behind many of these instructions and teachings has been settled in the mind. the great prophet and the pious imams have recommended the use of many herbs and vegetables as sou...

The ways in which we both produce and consume content has been a constant state of technologyled evolution. However, the perceived speed of change is now greater, and with that speed comes disruption (as was the case with the music industry around a decade ago). This work will look at the “content economy” where it has come from, where it is going, and whether the world of iPad-clutching consum...

The Internet market for paid content and paid services continually grows in significance, adding new meaning to the word "e-commerce". Business models regarding the range of premium digital contents or digital services, which, solely financed through advertising, were not possible or broke down in earlier times, can now be realized economically through "Paid Content" or "Paid Services". This st...

In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” e...

Orthodoxy, and other so-called world religions that were complicit with colonialist expansion and its repression of the “other peoples” (indigenous), their rites and beliefs. For centuries, colonial societies have denied that indigenous peoples had “religions” at all; as the great photographer of Native North American cultures Edward S. Curtis stated, “There seems to be a broadly prevalent idea...

Timelessly Present, Compassionately Impassible: A Defense of Two Classical Divine Attributes by Philip R. Olsson Claremont Graduate University: 2012 This study articulates a God-concept in the tradition of classical Christian theism, contending with calls to modify significantly or revise classical constructions. Attention falls upon two closely related divine attributes that have, especially i...