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Bridging the Mackie–Plantinga Debate on Evil with Ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics

Religions
This study examines how Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics can address key challenges in the contemporary philosophical debate on the problem of evil. John Mackie famously argues that the existence of an omnibenevolent and omnipotent God is logically incompatible ...
Elif Nur Balci
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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?

Religions, 2022
This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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The Problem of Evil: Theodicy and Argumentation [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016
The paper departs from differing of two modalities of the attitude of the theistic reason to the problem of evil, i.e. building of universally valid explanatonary models (theodicy) and apologies in the particular contexts (defense).
Shokhin Vladimir
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Evil and Explanations: A look at the problem of evil

, 2022
The problem of evil questions how God and evil can both exist. This is first challenged through the logical problem of evil, dealing with the general incoherence of God and evil existing.
Katler, Brady
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Mulla Sadra on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2015
In this article, Mulla Sadra’s account of the problem of evil is considered. He is one of the philosophers who attempt to provide logical solutions for the problems which stem from divine attributes (omniscience, omnipotence and goodness) by appeal to ...
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The problem of theodicy and the theology of the cross

In die Skriflig, 2007
Theodicy is the attempt to justify God’s righteousness and goodness amidst the experience of evil and suffering in the world. This article discusses Karl Barth’s Christological and Jürgen Moltmann’s eschatological approach to the problem of theodicy.
N. Vorster
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Revisiting the Logical Problem of Evil via Modal Tension [PDF]

J.L. Mackie’s logical problem of evil is widely considered addressed by Alvin Plantinga’s Free Will Defense (FWD). Plantinga’s defense heavily relies on the logical possibility of libertarian free will.
Dağ, Y.
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Hrozné zlo a jeho dopad na filozofické chápanie Boha ( Horrendous Evil and its Implications for the Philosophical Understanding of God )

Ostium, 2017
The argument from evil in the contemporary analytic philosophy of religion changed from the logical problem to the evidential problem of evil, and recently to the problem of horrendous evil. D. Z.
Ľuboš Rojka
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The Ethical Problem of Evil [PDF]

I introduce a distinct challenge to religious belief: the Ethical Argument from evil. By this argument, paradigmatic forms of religious practice constitutively involve failures of ethical acknowledgement with respect to the reality of evil.
Watts, Daniel
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Organic Unities: A Response to the Problem of Evil [PDF]

, 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.  Even though this principle has a major impact on moral theory, it ...
Floyd, Graham
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