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The letter is a communication tool used by many thinkers and scientists. It is generally written to disseminate ideas, criticize, and open discussion. The tradition of philosophizing with letters is a method and a form of philosophical discourse widely ...
Fatma SOMUNCUOĞLU ERKAN
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According to The Evidentialist problem of Evil, the existence of disproportionate, prima facie gratuitous evil and suffering in the world is enough evidence against the existence of the Omnipotent, Perfectly Loving, Omniscient God of Classical Theism.
NICOLA SALVATORE
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On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering
In his recent book Is a Good God Logically Possible? and article by the same name, James Sterba argued that the existence of significant and horrendous evils, both moral and natural, is incompatible with the existence of God.
Bruce R. Reichenbach
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I argue that James Sterba’s argument from evil involves a category mistake. He applies moral principles that pertain to ethical requirements that apply within creation to what may be called the ethics or axiology of creating and sustaining creation.
Charles Champe Taliaferro
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The Problem of Evil Part One: Evil in Philosophical Discourse [PDF]
This article is the first in a series of three articles that endeavor to provide a short survey of answers to, and interpretations of, the problem of evil in philosophical, mythopoetic and religious discourses.
Iosif Riviș-Tipei
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The Problem of Evil Remains Logically Binding
Most contemporary discussions of the problem of evil assume that “logical” formulations of the problem are untenable, and that we should operate with “evidential” formulations instead. I argue that this consensus is founded on a mistake and that there is
Toby Betenson
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Griffin on the Traditional Theological Approaches to the Problem of Evil [PDF]
One of the most important issues in theology and philosophy of religion is the problem of evil and its relation to God and his omnipotence and omnibenevolence.
Haajar Darbandi Darian +2 more
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Prominent approaches to the problems of evil assume that even if the Anselmian God exists, some worlds are better than others, all else being equal. But the assumptions that the Anselmian God exists and that some worlds are better than others cannot be ...
Marshall Naylor
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Leibniz and Swinburne's views on the problem of evil [PDF]
The problem of evil is the most serious problem in religious thinking, and now is the most important atheistic reason against the existence of God. According to this argument, existent evils in the world are not compatible with an omnipotent, omniscient ...
Abdollah Nasri +1 more
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ON THE POSSIBILITY OF APHILOSOPHICAL ONTOLOGY OF EVIL [PDF]
The author attempts to analyze various responses to the problem of evil, demon-strating, that the majority of the philosophical attempts at constructing ontology of evil (or at least trying to «justify» its existence) do not hold water.
ADAM DOBRZYNSKI
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