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The Solution of Logical Problem of Evil, According to Motahari and John Hick [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت صدرایی, 2019
The problem of evil has a long history in philosophical thinking, and is one of the most important and challenging issues among philosophers and theologians, which in the most pessimistic case, leads to deny God, and in the most optimistic case, claims ...
Alireza parsa   +3 more
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A Critique of Schellenberg’s New Logical Argument from Evil [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2023
In a new formulation of the logical problem of evil, J. L. Schellenberg attempts to develop a new version of the logical form of the problem of evil through the logical inconsistency of the conjunction of three theistic claims with the existence of evil.
Mahboobeh Pakdel, Amirabbas Alizamani
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The New Logical Problem of Evil and Free Will Defense [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017
The argument based on the existence of evil in the world, as an atheistic argument against the existence of God, has two versions: logical and evidential.
Fatemeh Namavar   +2 more
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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...
Daniel Rubio
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Revisiting the Logical Problem of Evil and Swinburne’s Greater Goods Theodicy [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015
The problem of evil is challenging the belief in the omniscient, omnipotent, and wholly good God. In its logical sense and deductive form, it claims that there are some pointless evils and myriads of life disorderliness with the existence of which God’s ...
Tavakkol Kouhi Giglou, Javad Danesh
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On the Significance of Assumptions about Divine Goodness and Divine Ontology for ‘Logical’ Arguments from Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2021
Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? (2019) draws attention to the importance of ethical assumptions in ‘logical’ arguments from evil (LAfEs) to the effect that the existence of (certain types) of evil is incompatible with the existence of a God ...
John Bishop
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Alvin Plantinga’s Stance on the Logical Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2012
The contemporary atheists have maintained the belief in the existence of evil to inflict serious criticism on religious beliefs. They believe a contradiction to exist between the belief in the existence of evil and the belief in the existence of a God ...
A’elaa Toorani, Ma’esoomeh Ameri
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The Problem of Evil, Skeptical Theism and Moral Epistemology

open access: yesReligions, 2021
This paper argues that skeptical theism isn’t susceptible to criticisms of the view presented in James Sterba’s new book on the logical problem of evil.
Scott M. Coley
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A Compensatory Response to the Problem of Evil: Revisited

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this essay, I revisit the univocity thesis, Sterba’s analogy between God and a leader of a politically liberal society, and, most fundamentally, whether the existence of horrendous evils is logically compatible with the existence of a good God.
Michael Douglas Beaty
doaj   +2 more sources

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