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Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, and the Problematics of the Argument from Evil [PDF]

, 2016
The problem of evil--as opposed to the argument from evil--is an ancient one, but it was not initially formulated as an argument in support of atheism. God\u27s existence was taken for granted, and on that basis thinkers like Augustine engaged an serious
Nelson, Lance E.
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The problem of evil in Hinduism [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2010
After having pointed to the different religious concepts of the origin of evil, the author focuses on the discussion of Hinduism as a typical paradigm of monism.
Kinđić Zoran
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Axiology and the Problem of Evil

Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2023
In this article, I contend that (a) disagreement over the definition of ‘good person’ indicates a challenge for the probabilistic argument from evil (PAE) and (b) the debate between value monism and value pluralism exposes obstacles for the PAE.
Crozat Elliott R.
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The Moral Argument against the Existence of God? [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2017
While the moral argument for the existence of God is a more familiar issue in philosophy of religion, recently, atheist philosophers have proposed a moral argument against the existence of God. This argument has been formulated in at least five ways: (1)
Amirhossein Khodaparast
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A Dilemma for Sterba

Religions, 2022
James Sterba argues that a good God is not logically possible. He argues that what he calls the Pauline Principle, which says that we should never do evil that good may come of it, implies that a good God would prevent horrendous evil consequences of ...
Bruce Russell
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Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil [PDF]

, 2020
Given plausible assumptions about the nature of evidence and undercutting defeat, many believe that the force of the evidential problem of evil depends on sceptical theism’s being false: if evil is..
Oliveira, Luis R. G.
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Anselm’s Metaphysics of Nonbeing [PDF]

, 2012
In his eleventh century dialogue De Casu Diaboli, Anselm seeks to avoid the problem of evil for theodicy and explain the fall of Satan as attributable to Satan’s own self-creating wrongful will.
Jacquette, Dale
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Margaret Cavendish, Feminist Ethics, and the Problem of Evil [PDF]

, 2018
This paper argues that, although Margaret Cavendish’s main philosophical contributions are not in philosophy of religion, she makes a case for a defense of God, in spite of the worst sorts of harms being present in the world.
Hernandez, Jill
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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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Animals and the Problem of Evil in Recent Theodicies [PDF]

, 2009
This paper critically evaluates the theodicies of John Hick, Richard Swinburne and process theism regarding animal suffering and evils. The positions of Hick and Swinburne are based on false empirical assumptions, e.g., animals do not suffer.
Maller, Mark
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