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Locating the Problem of Evil

open access: yesReligions, 2023
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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Cosmopsychism and the Problem of Evil

open access: yesSophia, 2023
AbstractCosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, is experiencing something of a revival as an explanation of consciousness in philosophy of mind and is also making inroads into philosophy of religion. In the latter field, it has been used to formulate models of certain forms of theism, such as pantheism and panentheism, and has also been
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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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, Patrick Hayden
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The Problem of Evil Part One: Evil in Philosophical Discourse [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2020
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 poetics of evil : a study of the aesthetic theme in theodicy [PDF]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه 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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The problem of evil

open access: yesFaith 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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God, Evil, and Infinite Value

open access: yesReligions, 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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Genesis, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Evil

open access: yes, 2021
This article explores the ways the dynamics of sin, good, and evil may be understood in a technological future characterized by the implementation of artificial intelligence in society.
Scheuer, Blaženka,, Lund University.
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