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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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A Moral Criticism of Contemporary Islamic Philosophy's Responses (According to Tabatabai and Motahhari’s Viewpoints) to the Problem of Evil [PDF]
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 +2 more
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While the evidential problem of evil has been enormously influential within the contemporary philosophical literature—William Rowe’s 1979 formulation in “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism” being the most seminal—no academic research has ...
Ian Church +2 more
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The Status of Leibniz's Theodicy in Kant's Pre-Critical Thought [PDF]
Immanuel Kant has addressed the problem of evil in many of his works. The neglected part of Kant’s thought -especially among Muslim scholars- is his philosophical objections and defenses regarding the problem of evil in pre-critical and early critical ...
Zahra Farzanegan, Farah Ramin
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Cosmopsychism and the Problem of Evil
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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Criticism of the nihilistic solution of the nature of evil Based on the wisdom of the Supreme with emphasis on Ayatollah Javadi Amoli's point of view [PDF]
The problem of evil is one of the most important philosophical-theological challenges in all religious religions such as Islam and Christianity. Many thinkers have analyzed and investigated it with different approaches.
Mohamad Javad Hasanzadeh Mashkani
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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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Hyper-Past Evils: A Reply to Bogdan V. Faul
A reply to Bogdan V. Faul’s “Can God Promise Us a New Past? A Response to Lebens and Goldschmidt.” In this reply we clarify why it is that we regard a scene-changing theory of time to be an improvement over presentism from a theological point of view. We
Goldschmidt Tyron, Lebens Samuel
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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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