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A Comparison between Swinburne’s and Mutahari’s views on the Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014 The problem of evil, as raised by Mutahari and Swinburne, is one of the most important and complicated problems concerning belief in God and teleology of the world.
Hamidreza Ekandari Damaneh +1 more
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Examining the logical argument of the problem of evil from an African perspective
Religious Studies, 2022 AbstractWe argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from the unequal binary that characterizes the bivalent structure of Western discourses in the philosophy of religion. This structure pits God against the devil, but also the value of good against evil they are believed to represent.
Jonathan O. Chimakonam +1 more
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Against the New Logical Argument from Evil
Religions, 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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Defeating the Problem of Evil with Evil
TheoLogicaI argue that the creation and freely chosen salvation and everlasting bliss of even just one person is a greater good than any finite amount of evil and suffering.
Rad Miksa
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Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba
Religions, 2022 James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain the compossibility of a perfect God and the amount and degree of moral evil that we see. I think he is mistaken about this.
Luis R. G. Oliveira
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On a New Logical Problem of Evil
Faith and Philosophy, 2015 J. L. Schellenberg has formulated two versions of a new logical argument from evil, an argument he claims to be immune to Alvin Plantinga’s free will defense. The first version assumes that God created the world to model God’s goodness, and the second to share with the world the good that already existed.
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TheoLogica, 2019 The principle of organic unities is a metaphysical claim regarding the nature of moral value. It states that the value of the whole is not equal to the summation of its parts.
Graham Floyd
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The Problem of Evil and God’s Moral Standing: A Rejoinder to James Sterba
Religions, 2022 This article is a rejoinder to James Sterba’s response to my previous article on the topic of his book, Is a Good God Logically Possible? Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible given the amount of horrendous evil in the world. If God did
J. Brian Huffling
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Religions, 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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MIQOT: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Keislaman, 2021 <p><strong>Abstract: </strong>The study of the ideas of Ibn Sînâ and Richard Swinburne as the pioneers of Islamic philosophy and the West philosophy, and on the other hand, the existing scholastic and ideological differences, is something that can help us to become more familiar with the thoughts of these philosophers and intellectual
Mukhammad Zamzami +3 more
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