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Is Theism Incompatible with the Pauline Principle?

Religions, 2022
This paper criticises James Sterba’s use of the Pauline principle to formulate a logical version of the problem of evil. Sterba’s argument contains a crucial premise: If human agents are always prohibited from doing some action, God is also prohibited ...
Matthew Flannagan
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How the Trinitarian God of Christianity Provides the Best Explanation for Objective Morality: Comparing the Metaethical Theories of James Sterba and Adam Lloyd Johnson [PDF]

Religions
James Sterba recently presented arguments against theories which ground morality in God and attempted “to provide an account of the norms on which an ethics without God can be appropriately grounded ….” In particular, Sterba noted that “Robert Adams is ...
Adam Lloyd Johnson
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Sterba on Divine Commands and Fairness [PDF]

Religions
James Sterba has recently argued against Divine Command Theory (DCT). Sterba also offers, as a preferable alternative to DCT, a metaethical account which he has developed over a number of years (culminating in Sterba’s 2013 book), which attempts to ...
Daniel Molto
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Brief Remarks on Sterba’s Moral Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
We pose two challenges to Sterba’s position. First, we show that Sterba fails to consider alternative historical positions such as Leibniz’s (who argues that God knows that the actual world is the best of all possible worlds) or Kant’s (who suggests that
Marco Hausmann, Amit Kravitz
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On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering [PDF]

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. He advances the discussion by invoking three moral requirements and by creating an analogy with how the just state would address
Bruce R Reichenbach
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Sterba on Liberty and Welfarism

Analyse & Kritik, 2015
Abstract James Sterba advances several arguments designed to show that libertarianism, contrary to what this author and other libertarians think, actually implies support for welfarism and even egalitarianism. This discussion shows why his arguments do not work.
Jan Narveson
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Does the Analogy of an Ideal State Disprove God’s Existence? James Sterba’s Argument and a Thomistic Response

Religions, 2022
This paper provides an analysis of James Sterba’s argument from evil in the world and the author’s Thomistic counterargument. Many authors of contemporary analytic philosophy of religion discuss the concept of “horrendous evils”, which is a ...
Patrik Hrmo
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Evil and Divine Power: A Response to James Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2021
In this article, I offer a response to James P. Sterba’s moral argument for the non-existence of God. Sterba applies to God the so-called Pauline Principle that it is not permissible to do evil in order that good may come.
Elizabeth D Burns
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Creator Theology and Sterba’s Argument from Evil

Religions, 2022
In this paper, I reformulate Sterba’s argument from evil and consider the various ways theists might respond to it. There are two basic families of responses. On the one hand, theists can deny that God, as a perfect being, needs to act in accordance with Sterba’s moral evil prevention requirements (MEPRs).
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Why Ethics Requires a God and Is Safer from Evolutionary Debunking Threats as a Result: A Reply to Sterba [PDF]

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Sterba has argued that ethics does not require God and that an atheistic objectivist ethics is compatible with an evolutionary account of our development.
Gerald K. Harrison
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