{"id":856,"date":"2024-03-28T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/an-overlooked-argument-for-the-resurrection\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:06:00","slug":"an-overlooked-argument-for-the-resurrection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/an-overlooked-argument-for-the-resurrection\/","title":{"rendered":"An Overlooked Argument for the Resurrection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michaeljkruger.com\/one-of-the-most-overlooked-arguments-for-the-resurrection-2\/\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Michael J. Kruger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">In my jargon, the argument is rationally acceptable, but not rationally compelling (rationally&#0160; coercive, philosophically dispositive). There is no getting around the fact that, in the end, you must <em>decide<\/em> what you will believe and how you will live. In the end: after due doxastic diligence has been exercised and all the arguments and considerations <em>pro et contra<\/em> have been canvassed. <em>The will comes into it<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Don&#39;t confuse argument with&#0160; proof or faith with knowledge.&#0160; And forgive me for this further repetition: We <em>cannot<\/em> decide what the truth is, but we <em>must<\/em> decide what we will accept <em>as<\/em> the truth. The truth is what it is in sublime and objective indifference to us, our hopes, dreams, needs, wants,&#0160; and wishes. But the only truth that can help us, and perhaps save us, is the truth that we as &quot;existing individuals&quot; (Kierkegaard) existentially and thus subjectively appropriate, that is, make our own. In this sense lived truth is subjective truth. In this sense, S. K. is right to insist that &quot;truth is subjectivity&quot; in <em>Concluding Scientific Postscript<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">More in this vein in <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2023\/07\/notes-on-kierkegaard-and-truth.html\">Notes on Kierkegaard and Truth<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael J. Kruger In my jargon, the argument is rationally acceptable, but not rationally compelling (rationally&#0160; coercive, philosophically dispositive). There is no getting around the fact that, in the end, you must decide what you will believe and how you will live. In the end: after due doxastic diligence has been exercised and all the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/an-overlooked-argument-for-the-resurrection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Overlooked Argument for the Resurrection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,82,343,390,228,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-doctrine","category-christology","category-kierkegaard","category-resurrection","category-truth","category-truthfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}