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Pessimism and the secular problem of evil [PDF]
, 2021 How should we respond to the prevalence of ubiquitous evil? In this thesis, I present two responses to the secular problem of evil. The secular problem of evil exists because we want to live good lives, but we are all existentially vulnerable to evil ...
Ruiters, Siphamandla
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The Pragmatic Problem of Evil [PDF]
, 2021 This paper consists of two parts, namely, “Is the Landscape of the Problem of Evil at an Impasse?” and “A Pragmatic Argument against Reliance in God to Prevent Horrendous Evils.” The first part of this paper completes an analysis of formulations around
Cooper, Matthew James
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The Problem with the Problem of Evil
Open Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The problem of evil has been around for centuries but as yet no consensus exists as to its significance for atheism or theism. After a brief historical review, I focus on the debate between two leading contemporary philosophers, Rowe and Plantinga, and argue that neither has succeeded in resolving the evidential version of the problem of evil.
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]
, 2014 In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick +2 more
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The poetics of evil : a study of the aesthetic theme in theodicy [PDF]
, 2009 This work proposes to look at the role of aesthetics within Christian theodicy. Though the recent theodicy literature has often displayed suspicion toward the inclusion of aesthetic criteria, I will argue that theological aesthetics can enrich the ...
Tallon, Philip
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Griffin on the Traditional Theological Approaches to the Problem of Evil [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018 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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Faith and Philosophy, 1985 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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Religions, 2018 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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ON THE POSSIBILITY OF APHILOSOPHICAL ONTOLOGY OF EVIL [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2010 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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