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Mackie\u27s Arguement for the Infinite Man [PDF]

, 2019
Theists and non-theists alike have toiled with the characteristics of the Judeo-Christian God and how they may or may not be contradictory with the existence of evil. Some philosophers, such as J. L. Mackie, have decided that God and evil cannot coexist,
Basile, Abigail J
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How to Play the “Playing God” Card [PDF]

, 2020
When the phrase “playing God” is used in debates concerning the use of new technologies, such as cloning or genetic engineering, it is usually interpreted as a warning not to interfere with God’s creation or nature.
Mizrahi, Moti
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Ontological arguments from experience: Daniel A. Dombrowski, Iris Murdoch, and the nature of divine reality [PDF]

, 2012
Dombrowski and Murdoch offer versions of the ontological argument which aim to avoid two types of objection - those concerned with the nature of the divine, and those concerned with the move from an abstract concept to a mind-independent reality.
Blackburn, Broakes, Byrne, Cottingham, Coxon, Dancy, Deane, Deane, Deane, Despland, ELIZABETH D. BURNS, Fine, Grabowski, Greene, Hampson, Hartshorne, Hartshorne, Jacobs, John, Johnson, Jordan, Kant, Kant, Kerr, Malcolm, Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch, Murdoch, Oppy, Pascal, Plantinga, Silber, Taylor, Widdows, Wittgenstein   +36 more
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Assaying J. L. Mackie\\\'s View on Evil Based on Suhrewardi\\\'s Philosophy

Comparative Theology, 2014
J. L. Mackie is among those philosophers who have highlighted evil as evidence to God's nonexistence. Suhrewardi's ideas of evil can partially answer some of his critiques.
S.Moreza Hosseini Shahroudi, Reyhaneh Shayesteh   +1 more
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After Humanity: Science Fiction after Extinction in Kurt Vonnegut and Clifford D. Simak [PDF]

, 2016
This article takes up the question of whether and to what extent humanistic values can survive confrontation with the deep time of the Anthropocene, specifically with the inevitability of human extinction.
Canavan, Gerry
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Against the reduction of modality to essence. [PDF]

Synthese, 2021
Wildman N.
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Omni-beauty as a divine attribute [PDF]

, 2018
: the claim that God is perfectly beautiful has played a key role within the history of a number of religious traditions. However, this view has received surprisingly little attention from philosophers of religion in recent decades.
Alston, Alston, Balthasar, Beardsley, Beebe, Blackburn, Blackburn, Delattre, Eco, Edwards, Geach, Gellman, Gibbard, Gould, Harries, JON ROBSON, Luibheid, Maritain, McAllister, McMahon, Morris, Mothersill, Novitz, Plantinga, Scruton, Sevier, Tanner, Tweedale, van Inwagen, Wippel, Wittgenstein, Wolterstorff, Zagzebski   +32 more
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The opposition of omnibenevolence towards evil

Religious Studies
Abstract This article develops two logical arguments from evil that bypass Alvin Plantinga’s Free Will Defence through a critical examination of the relationship between freedom and value. The first argument assumes that morally innocent freedom is valuable, challenging the traditional emphasis on significant freedom. The second argument draws on an
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Parmenides, Plato, and Μίμησις. [PDF]

Evidence for a Parmenidean influence on Plato’s Republic typically focuses on content from Bks. V-VI, and the development of Plato’s Theory of Forms. This essay aims to suggest that Plato’s censorship of poetic content in Bks.
DeLong, Jeremy
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Evil, Freedom and Heaven [PDF]

, 2018
By far the most respected response by theists to the problem of evil is some version of the free will defense, which rests on the twin ideas that God could not create humans with free will without them committing evil acts, and that freedom is of such ...
Cushing, Simon
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