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  1. O wątpliwej moralności pewnych rozpowszechnionych form modlitwy.Saul Smilansky - 2016 - Roczniki Filozoficzne 64 (1):7-16.
    W chwilach szczególnego zagrożenia ludzie zwykle błagają Boga o pomoc dla siebie lub swoich bliskich, modląc się na przykład, żeby lawina zmieniła kierunek lub żeby znalazł się dawca organów dla czyjegoś umierającego dziecka. Taka modlitwa wydaje się naturalna, a dla wierzących nawet rozumna i akceptowalna. Niestosowne wydaje się potępianie takiej typowej modlitwy jako czegoś złego. Ale kiedy dokładnie zbadać, co się rzeczywiście dzieje w takich sytuacjach, to okazuję się, że często tego rodzaju modlitwa jest moralnie dyskusyjna. Autor twierdzi, że taka (...)
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  • Black magic and respecting persons—Some perplexities.Saul Smilansky & Juha Räikkä - 2020 - Ratio 33 (3):173-183.
    Black magic (henceforth BM) is acting in an attempt to harm human beings through supernatural means. Examples include the employment of spells, the use of special curses, the burning of objects related to the purported victim, and the use of pins with voodoo dolls. For the sake of simplicity, we shall focus on attempts to kill through BM. The moral attitude towards BM has not been, as far as we know, significantly discussed in contemporary analytic philosophy. Yet the topic brings (...)
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  • A moral problem about prayer.Saul Smilansky - 2014 - Think 13 (36):105-113.
    At a time of acute danger, people commonly petition God for help for themselves or their loved ones. Such prayer seems natural and, indeed, for believers, reasonable and acceptable. But once we closely examine what is actually happening in such situations, we see that frequently such prayer is not morally innocuous. I present a number of examples which illustrate the difficulty, and argue that even assuming the benevolence of the deity does not suffice to make such prayer legitimate.
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  • Is praying for the morally impermissible morally permissible?Daniel Peterson - 2014 - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 75 (3):254-264.
    Saul Smilansky has argued that, since acts of petitionary prayer are best understood as requests, not desires, there may be many more impermissible prayer acts than one might expect. I discuss Smilansky’s analysis and argue that his conclusion follows only for those who do not believe in an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly benevolent deity and take advantage of what Smilansky calls the theist’s ‘moral escape clause’. However, I take my argument to lead us to a variant of the problems of (...)
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  • Expressions of Preference and Other Morally Problematic Instances of Prayer.Bertha Alvarez Manninen - 2019 - Journal of Religious Ethics 47 (4):679-695.
    When considering the role of prayer in the lives of believers, most theists agree that one important effect is the psychological impact on the person who is praying. Nevertheless, the way many of us pray, by primarily or solely focusing on our welfare and the welfare of our loved ones, agitates the human tendency towards exclusion. If we take seriously God’s commandment to love the neighbor as the self, we should use prayer, instead, as a prime opportunity to help cultivate (...)
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