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Mawlavi and Logical problem of Evil [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2008
Thinkers justified the problem of evil in two kinds: 1- As logical problem of evil 2- As evidential problem of evil. In former type , the chief question is the controversy between evil and religious propositions and based on incompatiblist view , while ...
ghasem purhasan
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A new response to the new evil demon problem [PDF]

, 2017
The New Evil Demon Problem is meant to show that reliabilism about epistemic justification is incompatible with the intuitive idea that the external-world beliefs of a subject who is the victim of a Cartesian demon could be epistemically justified. Here,
Baysan, Umut
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The Problem of Evil, God’s Personhood, and the Reflective Muslim

Religions
Is it correct to think of God as a perfectly good personal agent? Not so, argue John Bishop and Ken Perszyk. Bishop and Perszyk, in their most recent work, God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism (2023), outline a series of ...
Zain Ali
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Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide [PDF]

, 2015
A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian, Gavin, Helen
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Animal Suffering and the Laws of Nature

Religions, 2022
Two recent atheistic arguments from evil have made much of natural evil and the suffering of animals in their case contra theism. The first argument is that of James Sterba.
Jeffrey Jordan
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The Skepticism of Skeptical Theism [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019
Skeptical theism is a type of reply to arguments from evil against God’s existence. The skeptical theist declines to accept a premiss of some such argument, professing ignorance, for example, about whether God is justified in permitting certain evils or ...
Edward Wierenga
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A Moral Criticism of Contemporary Islamic Philosophy's Responses (According to Tabatabai and Motahhari’s Viewpoints) to the Problem of Evil [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023
There are three accounts of the problem of evil: (1) Logical problem of evil (The logical incompatibility between the existence of God and His attributes and the existence of evil); (2) The evidential problem of evil (Evil as evidence against the ...
Zahra Yahyapour, Naimeh Pourmohammadi, Malek Hosseini   +2 more
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Spinoza and Letters on Evil

Din ve Bilim Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi İslami İlimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023
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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A DEFENCE OF SKEPTICAL THEISM

Manuscrito, 2021
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

Religions, 2021
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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