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NATURAL GOODNESS AND NATURAL EVIL
Ratio, 2006AbstractIn Natural Goodness Philippa Foot gives an analysis of the concepts we use to describe the characteristics of living things. She suggests that we describe them in functional terms, and this allows us to judge organisms as good or defective depending on how well they perform their distinctive functions.
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Introducing Moral Evil and Natural Evil
2013Philosophy is one of the disciplines that have been examining evil for hundreds of years. When looking for a human ‘taste for harming’ and for answers to the question in which terms to discuss evil, philosophy definitely has a say. It is however impossible to review all the relevant literature about evil in philosophy and adjacent sciences as numerous ...
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Religious Studies, 1988
InEvil and a Good GodBruce Reichenbach presents a theodicy for natural evil. According to Reichenbach, natural evil consists in suffering and pain and ‘states of affairs significantly disadvantageous to sentient beings’ which have either nonhuman causes or human causes for which no human being can be held morally responsible.
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InEvil and a Good GodBruce Reichenbach presents a theodicy for natural evil. According to Reichenbach, natural evil consists in suffering and pain and ‘states of affairs significantly disadvantageous to sentient beings’ which have either nonhuman causes or human causes for which no human being can be held morally responsible.
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1996
At its simplest, the outline argument of this book can be set out as a hypothetical syllogism thus (11) (12) (13) (14) This can be read, God exists (G) and hence there is human freedom (F); if there is human freedom, then there exists a set of true propositions about the actual world (∑α′) describing the ...
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At its simplest, the outline argument of this book can be set out as a hypothetical syllogism thus (11) (12) (13) (14) This can be read, God exists (G) and hence there is human freedom (F); if there is human freedom, then there exists a set of true propositions about the actual world (∑α′) describing the ...
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