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, 2020 Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Many hold that it undermines a key inference often used by such arguments. However, the case for skeptical theism is often kept at an intuitive level: no one has offered an explicit argument ...
Hendricks, Perry
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Moral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
, 2009 Moral error theory claims that no moral sentence is (nonvacuously) true. Atheism claims that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with, or makes improbable, the existence of God. Is moral error theory compatible with atheism?
Daly, Chris
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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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The Open Future, Free Will and Divine Assurance: Responding to Three Common Objections to the Open View [PDF]
, 2015 In this essay I respond to three of the most forceful objections to the open view of the future. It is argued that a) open view advocates must deny bivalence; b) the open view offers no theodicy advantages over classical theism; and c) the open view can ...
Boyd, Gregory
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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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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]
, 2012 In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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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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Religions, 2022 James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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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
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Tadeusz Kotarbiński on God and Religion [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of the paper is the presentation of the main reasons of Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s atheism and an interpretation of his position in terms of the conceptual apparatus used in contemporary philosophical debate on atheism.
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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