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Reviving Manichaeism with the Evil God Challenge

Religions
In contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, the evil God challenge has been developed by several authors as a parody argument. Proponents of this challenge contend that, given the goods in our world, the hypothesis of an omnipotent, omniscient ...
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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Problem of Evil in Taoism [PDF]

Religious Inquiries, 2016
This paper attempts to present the Taoist understanding of evil. In the Taoist tradition, especially in Tao Te Ching, evil is divided into two categories: causal evil and consequential evil.
Qorban Elmi, Mojtaba Zarvani
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The problem of evil

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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A Comparison between Swinburne’s and Mutahari’s views on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2014
The problem of evil, as raised by Mutahari and Swinburne, is one of the most important and complicated problems concerning belief in God and teleology of the world.
Hamidreza Ekandari Damaneh, Ghasem Purhasan   +1 more
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Wittgenstein and the Pseudo-Problem of Evil

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2021
Theists believe that our world was created by an omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent God. If God with such traits creates a world, we would expect that the world to have certain features. Such features should be compatible with God’s traits. We do
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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God Unhinged? A Critique of Quasi-Fideism

Religions
Drawing on Wittgenstein’s On Certainty, Duncan Pritchard argues for a position he calls quasi-fideism. Quasi-Fideism is the view that hinge commitments such as “God exists” are exempt from rational scrutiny within the language game of religion.
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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problem of evil [PDF]

حکمت صدرایی, 2014
One may have perceptions and experiences in the world which is not agreeable to his nature. On the other hand, it is undeniable for theologians that there exists a Wise, Omnipotent, and absolutely Just God. The contemporary formulations of the problem of
غلامحسین خدری
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Facing the problem of evil

Nordisk Judaistik, 2018
This article explores imagination as a means of ethical re-orientation in the aftermath of atrocity. The discussion of the problem of evil is based on Hannah Arendt’s critique of Kant and her notion of ‘rootless’ rather than ‘radical’ evil. On this basis,
Claudia Welz
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The Problem of Evil Part One: Evil in Philosophical Discourse [PDF]

Journal 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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On Quentin Meillassoux and the Problem of Evil

Open Theology, 2020
The problem of evil and the injustice it brings out has a long history in western philosophy and it has been one of the core arguments against the existence of God as an all-powerful and all-good Being.
Mangion Claude
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