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Moral Error Theory and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
Moral error theory claims that no moral sentence is (nonvacuously) true. Atheism claims that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with, or makes improbable, the existence of God. Is moral error theory compatible with atheism?
Daly, Chris
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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]
In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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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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On the boundaries between good and evil: Constructing multiple moralities in China [PDF]
This essay discusses three contrasting versions of the relationship between good and evil in contemporary China: a spirit medium who maneuvers between them, a charismatic Christian group that forges an identity by defending the border between them, and ...
Weller, Robert P., Wu, Keping
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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil [PDF]
This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world.
Hernandez, Jill
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THE AUGUSTINIAN BACKGROUND The problem of evil is raised by the combination of certain traditional theistic beliefs and the acknowledgment that there is evil in the world. If, as the major monotheisms claim, there is a perfectly good, omnipotent, omniscient God who creates and governs the world, how can the world such a God created and governs ...
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The Hidden Love of God and the Imaging Defense [PDF]
J. L. Schellenberg has recently argued that there is a logical incompatibility between God’s being perfectly loving and there being non-resistant nonbelievers in the proposition that God exists.
Yadav, Sameer
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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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