Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature
Religions, 2022 Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
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A Critique of Schellenberg’s New Logical Argument from Evil [PDF]
Pizhūhish/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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A Discourse Criticism of Replies to the Problem of Evil in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy (ʿAllama Tabatabaʾi and Ayatollah Motahhari) [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2023 Introduction The perennial problem of evil, which includes a set of problems, was generally formulated in three ways: (1) the logical problem of evil (logical inconsistency of God’s existence and attributes with the existence of evil), (2) the evidential
Zahra Yahyapour +2 more
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The Hidden Love of God and the Imaging Defense [PDF]
, 2020 J. L. Schellenberg has recently argued that there is a logical incompatibility between God’s being perfectly loving and there being non-resistant nonbelievers in the proposition that God exists.
Yadav, Sameer
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A Study of Nick Trakakis's Approach to Anti-Theodicy in Comparison with Meta-Theodicy and Critique of Theodicy [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022 The problem of evil and theodicy are acknowledged as inherent parts of the philosophy of religion. But on the other hand, some are seeking a way to put an end to this issue.
Seyed Mahdi Sajadi
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The Status of Leibniz's Theodicy in Kant's Pre-Critical Thought [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 Immanuel Kant has addressed the problem of evil in many of his works. The neglected part of Kant’s thought -especially among Muslim scholars- is his philosophical objections and defenses regarding the problem of evil in pre-critical and early critical ...
Zahra Farzanegan, Farah Ramin
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O sofrimento dos animais não humanos e o paradoxo do mal natural
O Que Nos Faz Pensar, 2023 The present article analyses the paradox involving the problem of evil, especially the suffering that occurs due to natural phenomena (natural evil). Non-human animals are innocent creatures that can suffer as a result of these events. How to explain the
Daniel Braga Lourenço
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Can Heaven Justify Horrendous Moral Evils? A Postmortem Autopsy
Religions, 2023 James Sterba has recently constructed a new and compelling logical problem of evil that rejects Plantinga’s free-will defense and employs the concept of significant freedom and the Pauline Principle to demonstrate an incompatibility between the existence
Asha Lancaster-Thomas
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Moral Imaginative Resistance to Heaven: Why the Problem of Evil is So Intractable [PDF]
, 2018 The majority of philosophers of religion, at least since Plantinga’s reply to Mackie’s logical problem of evil, agree that it is logically possible for an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God to exist who permits ...
Kramer, Chris
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Hedenius’ Soteriological Argument from Evil [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper I explicate and assess a logical argument from evil put forth by the Swedish analytic philosopher Ingemar Hedenius in his book Tro och vetande, by far the most famous and influential critique of Christianity in Swedish intellectual history.
Kraal, Anders
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