Presentism,Redemption, and Moral Development |
| |
Authors: | Robert Edward Pezet |
| |
Affiliation: | School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS2 9JT UK |
| |
Abstract: | This paper explores what could justify some intuitive temporal asymmetries regarding redemption and the distribution of ills and goods throughout an agent's lifespan. After exposing the inadequacies of causal explanations – based on our differential ability to affect the future, but not the past – a metaphysical explanation is outlined in relation to three competing temporal‐ontological profiles of agents, and their varying accounts of a being's development. Only one of those conceptions of agents – supported by Presentism, the thesis that everything is present – offers an account justifying the intuitive temporal asymmetries. Finally, consequences are then drawn for the possibility of true redemption. |
| |
Keywords: | Atonement Moral Development Presentism Redemption Temporal Asymmetry Time |
|
|