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THE GOOD PLACE AND TED SIDER'S PUZZLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2019

Jeremiah Joven B. Joaquin  and
Hazel T. Biana
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Abstract

The hit American TV show The Good Place has garnered quite a following in recent years. Its main premise implies a scorekeeping view of the afterlife. People who have collected enough credits in their earthly lives will make the cut and go to the Good Place, while those who do not will be banished to the Bad Place. We suggest that such a premise would have to come to terms with Ted Sider's puzzle about the compatibility of a binary afterlife with God's divine attributes.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 19 , Issue 54 , Spring 2020 , pp. 25 - 29
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2019

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Notes

1 The plot twist in the The Good Place is that the supposed Good Place is actually a Bad Place.

2 Sider, Theodore, ‘Hell and Vagueness’, Faith and Philosophy 19(2) (2001): 58–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 The discussion that follows is based on Joaquin, Jeremiah Joven, ‘Hell, Heaven, Neither, or Both: The Afterlife and Sider's Puzzle’, Sophia 58(3) (2019): 401–8CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Corabi, Joseph, ‘Eschatological Cutoffs’, Faith and Philosophy 28(4) (2011): 385–96CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 See Joaquin, ‘Hell, Heaven, Neither, or Both’.

6 The idea of the Medium Place is already explored in The Good Place.