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A new response to the new evil demon problem [PDF]
, 2017 The New Evil Demon Problem is meant to show that reliabilism about epistemic justification is incompatible with the intuitive idea that the external-world beliefs of a subject who is the victim of a Cartesian demon could be epistemically justified. Here,
Baysan, Umut
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Leibniz and Swinburne's views on the problem of evil [PDF]
Comparative Theology, 2015 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 ...
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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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The Problem with the Problem of Evil
Open Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The problem of evil has been around for centuries but as yet no consensus exists as to its significance for atheism or theism. After a brief historical review, I focus on the debate between two leading contemporary philosophers, Rowe and Plantinga, and argue that neither has succeeded in resolving the evidential version of the problem of evil.
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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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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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Reviving Manichaeism with the Evil God Challenge
ReligionsIn 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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