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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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British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2008
George Winter reflects on the problem of evil and its moral, psychological and biological explanations
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George Winter reflects on the problem of evil and its moral, psychological and biological explanations
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Philosophical Explorations, 1998
Abstract We readily claim that great moral catastrophes such as the Holocaust involve evil in some way, although it' not clear what this amounts to in a secular context. This paper seeks to provide a secular account of what evil is. It examines what is intuitively the most plausible account, namely that the evil act involves the production of great ...
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Abstract We readily claim that great moral catastrophes such as the Holocaust involve evil in some way, although it' not clear what this amounts to in a secular context. This paper seeks to provide a secular account of what evil is. It examines what is intuitively the most plausible account, namely that the evil act involves the production of great ...
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Religious Studies, 1983
In his recent book, The Existence of God, Richard Swinburne argues that the world as we find it is one that a good and omnipotent God would have good reason to bring about. He does not claim to demonstrate, that is, deductively to prove, that the world is God–made but rather to show that the proposition that God exists and made the world is more likely
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In his recent book, The Existence of God, Richard Swinburne argues that the world as we find it is one that a good and omnipotent God would have good reason to bring about. He does not claim to demonstrate, that is, deductively to prove, that the world is God–made but rather to show that the proposition that God exists and made the world is more likely
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Malebranche's Theodicy for Natural Evils
2021My dissertation examines Malebranche’s theodicy for natural evils (i.e., Malebranche’s reconciliation of the existence of God with the existence of natural evils). In Chapter 1, entitled “The Conceptual Possibility of Natural Evils,” I explain how Malebranche conceives of certain natural things (e.g., pains, deformities/monstrosities, and disasters) as
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Swinburne on natural evil from natural processes
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1991Richard Swinburne has argued that the existence of natural evil is compatible with the existence of God as defined in traditional theism. At the core of that definition is the idea of God as the omniscient, omnipotent, morally perfect, benevolent, worshipful designer-creator of the universe.
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