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Wittgenstein and the Pseudo-Problem of Evil

Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast

Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne > 2021 > 55 > 49-66

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 not expect a God who is omnipotent and omniscient to create a poorly-designed world. If we believe that our world is created by God with the aforementioned...

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THE MANY WORRIES OF MANY WORLDS

Emily Qureshi‐Hurst

Zygon® > 58 > 1 > 225 - 245

Theological engagement with quantum mechanics has been dominated by the Copenhagen interpretation, failing to reflect the fact that philosophers and physicists alike are increasingly moving away from the Copenhagen interpretation in favor of other approaches. One such approach, Hugh Everett's so‐called Many Worlds Interpretation (MWI), is being taken increasingly seriously. As the MWI's credibility...

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Gianni Vattimo on the Problem of Evil

Matthew Edward Harris

The Heythrop Journal > 63 > 6 > 1089 - 1099

The problem of evil asks why an all‐loving, all‐powerful God would permit evil and suffering. Gianni Vattimo, a postmodern philosopher influenced by Nietzsche and Heidegger, returned to religion in the 1990s, but only addressed the concept of evil in a sustained fashion some twenty years later. Vattimo’s contribution to the problem of evil addresses the problem circuitously by analysing the concept...

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Aquinas on Evil and the Will: A response to Mackie*

Facundo Rodríguez

New Blackfriars > 102 > 1102 > 997 - 1014

This article argues that, without being reducible to a version of the Free Will Defence, Aquinas' theodicy and philosophical theology can offer contemporary versions of the Free Will Defence stronger metaphysical and theological foundations from which a response to Mackie's compatibilistic challenge – probably the most serious challenge against this defence – can be derived. Mackie's challenge to...

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The problem of evil: An economic approach

Francisco Parro

Kyklos > 74 > 4 > 527 - 551

This paper develops an economic model to study the philosophical problem of evil. God's creation of the world is modeled as a problem of optimal incentives. A principal (God) must choose a world so that the populating agents behave according to his benevolent objective. In a world, the physical environment resembles a contract that determines the rewards and punishments for different choices. The...

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THE THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM WITH EVOLUTION

Hans Madueme

Zygon® > 56 > 2 > 481 - 499

This article explores hamartiological questions at the interface of evolutionary biology and theology. Such questions include the problem of evil, the possibility of a historical fall, and the meaning of human sinfulness in light of biology. First, I examine some of the leading accounts of animal theodicy, including John Schneider's aesthetic theodicy, Christopher Southgate's compound theodicy, and...

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Atonement and the Knowledge of God: Alvin Plantinga and Eleanore Stump Atonement, Eleonore Stump, Oxford University Press, 2018 (ISBN 978‐0‐19‐881386‐6), xviii + 510 pp., hb £60 Two Dozen (or so) Arguments for God: The Plantinga Project, Jerry L. Walls and Trent Dougherty (eds), Oxford University Press, 2018 (ISBN 978‐0‐19‐084221‐5), xiv + 486 pp., hb £64

Owen Anderson

Reviews in Religion & Theology > 27 > 1 > 4 - 10

Alvin Plantinga and Eleonore Stump represent the best of the analytic philosophical and theological school for the past four decades. Is God real and is God knowledge? The collection of essays from the Plantinga Project looks at just these questions. What is sin and how can it be atoned for? Eleonore Stump's book gives her new unique answer to those questions. Behind both is a method and an approach...

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Metaphysics and the idea of salvation

Judycki, Stanisław, Judycki, Stanisław

Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria > 2020 > 2

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Sharon Street’s unsuccessful argument against theism

Philip Pegan

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2019 > 86 > 1 > 17-24

Sharon Street has argued that we should reject theism because we can accept it only at the cost of having good reason to doubt the reliability of our judgments as to what moral reasons there are. The success of her argument depends on the assumption that no realist account of normative reasons that validates commonsense morality has a tenable secular epistemology. I argue that even given this (obviously...

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Did the universe design itself?

Philip Goff

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2019 > 85 > 1 > 99-122

Many philosophers and scientists believe that we need an explanation as to why the laws of physics and the initial conditions of the universe are fine-tuned for life. The standard two options are: theism and the multiverse hypothesis. Both of these theories are extravagant and arguably have false predictions. Drawing on contemporary philosophy of mind, I outline a form of panpsychism that I believe...

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How to prove the existence of God: an argument for conjoined panentheism

Elizabeth D. Burns

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2019 > 85 > 1 > 5-21

This article offers an argument for a form of panentheism in which the divine is conceived as both ‘God the World’ and ‘God the Good’. ‘God the World’ captures the notion that the totality of everything which exists is ‘in’ God, while acknowledging that, given evil and suffering, not everything is ‘of’ God. ‘God the Good’ encompasses the idea that God is also the universal concept of Goodness, akin...

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Skeptical theism and the challenge of atheism

James P. Sterba

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2019 > 85 > 2 > 173-191

Skeptical theists hold that we should be skeptical about our ability to know the reasons that God would have for permitting evil, at least in particular cases. They argue for their view by setting aside actions that are wrong in themselves and focusing their attention on actions that are purportedly right or wrong simply in terms of their consequences. However, I argue in this paper that once skeptical...

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The problem of religious evil: Does belief in god cause evil?

Lloyd Strickland

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2018 > 84 > 2 > 237-250

Daniel Kodaj has recently developed a pro-atheistic argument that he calls “the problem of religious evil.” This first premise of this argument is “belief in God causes evil.” Although this idea that belief in God causes evil is widely accepted, certainly in the secular West, it is sufficiently problematic as to be unsuitable as a basis for an argument for atheism, as Kodaj seeks to use it. In this...

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A RANDOMNESS‐BASED THEODICY FOR EVOLUTIONARY EVILS

Jordan Wessling, Joshua Rasmussen

Zygon® > 52 > 4 > 984 - 1004

We develop and knit together several theodicies in order to find a more complete picture of why certain forms of (nonhuman) animal suffering might be permitted by a perfect being. We focus on an especially potent form of the problem of evil, which arises from considering why a perfectly good, wise, and powerful God might use evolutionary mechanisms that predictably result in so much animal suffering...

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An All Too Radical Solution to the Problem of Evil: a Reply to Harrison

Dan Linford

Sophia > 2018 > 57 > 1 > 157-171

Gerald Harrison has recently argued the evidential problem of evil can be resolved if we assume the moral facts are identical to God’s commands or favorings. On a theistic metaethics, the moral facts are identical to what God commands or favors. Our moral intuitions reflect what God commands or favors for us to do, but not what God favors for Herself to do. Thus, on Harrison’s view, while we can know...

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Servants of Heaven: the place of virtue in the Confucian cosmos

Benjamin Huff

International Communication of Chinese Culture > 2017 > 4 > 2 > 271-298

Understanding Heaven and its governance or decree is essential to the Confucian ethos. Yet recent scholarship displays deep disagreements on how Heaven (tian 天) and its decree (ming 命) are to be understood. Contrary to some recent scholars, in this paper I argue that the conception of Heaven and its decree within the Analects and the Mencius is quite consistent and unified, and so is its ethical status...

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The Problem with the Satan Hypothesis: Natural Evil and Fallen Angel Theodicies

Kent Dunnington

Sophia > 2018 > 57 > 2 > 265-274

In contemporary discussions of natural evil, one classically important theodicy—variously called warfare theodicy, fallen angel theodicy, or the Satan hypothesis—is rarely mentioned, let alone defended. This is the view that so-called natural evil, the evil suffered by sentient beings that is not caused by human agency, is caused by angelic agency, specifically that of Satan and other fallen angels...

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On the Concept of Theodicy

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

Sophia > 2017 > 56 > 2 > 207-225

My purpose in this paper is to clarify or explicate the concept of theodicy. More specifically, I shall provide an account of the concept that takes its logical aspects seriously into consideration as well as satisfies the basic intuitions philosophers of religions have had about it. This shall be done by systematically analysing the several theodical conditions found in the literature. As it shall...

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Absolute idealism and the problem of evil

N. N. Trakakis

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion > 2017 > 82 > 1 > 47-69

The problem of evil is regularly regarded as posing a serious threat to theistic belief. However, contemporary philosophers of religion have overlooked the ways in which this problem has been, or could be, handled by theists committed to the metaphysics of idealism. In seeking to redress this lacuna, I turn to the systems of the British idealists, popular in the late nineteenth century though now...

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Philosophy and Religious Commitment

N. N. Trakakis

Sophia > 2017 > 56 > 4 > 605-630

An aspect of the question of the relationship between reason and faith concerns the compatibility between philosophy and religious commitment. I begin by considering some attempts that have been made in both the analytic and Continental traditions to divorce philosophy from the life of religious faith as far as possible: in particular, I discuss Martin Heidegger’s critique of the very idea of a ‘Christian...

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Wittgenstein and the Pseudo-Problem of Evil

THE MANY WORRIES OF MANY WORLDS

Gianni Vattimo on the Problem of Evil

Aquinas on Evil and the Will: A response to Mackie*

The problem of evil: An economic approach

THE THEOLOGICAL PROBLEM WITH EVOLUTION

Metaphysics and the idea of salvation

Sharon Street’s unsuccessful argument against theism

Did the universe design itself?

How to prove the existence of God: an argument for conjoined panentheism

Skeptical theism and the challenge of atheism

The problem of religious evil: Does belief in god cause evil?

A RANDOMNESS‐BASED THEODICY FOR EVOLUTIONARY EVILS

An All Too Radical Solution to the Problem of Evil: a Reply to Harrison

Servants of Heaven: the place of virtue in the Confucian cosmos

The Problem with the Satan Hypothesis: Natural Evil and Fallen Angel Theodicies

On the Concept of Theodicy

Absolute idealism and the problem of evil

Philosophy and Religious Commitment

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