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    Challenges→Any axiological formulation of the argument from evil is incomplete in a crucial respect.

    A being whose nature just is perfect goodness is logically compelled to act on that goodness, collapsing the axiological-deontological distinction for the theistic God specifically.

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    Key Terms

    Axiological(as used in ethics)
    Relating to values and what makes things good or bad; from the Greek word 'axios' meaning worthy or valuable.
    Deontological(as used in moral philosophy)
    An approach to ethics that focuses on whether actions follow rules and duties, rather than on whether they produce good outcomes.
    Logically compelled(describing necessity of God's actions)
    Forced to do something by the rules of logic itself—it would be a logical contradiction NOT to do it.
    Theistic God(as the God concept discussed in classical theology)
    The God described in religions like Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—a personal being who created the universe and interacts with it.
    distinction(One of the two components of Arendtian plurality)

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    The aspect of plurality by which no two human beings are ever interchangeable, each being endowed with a unique biography and perspective on the world
    nature(Schelling's philosophy of nature)
    Everything that appears to be independent of us, reinterpreted by Schelling in terms of the I-constituting activities rather than as a domain genuinely external to mind.
    perfect goodness(Disambiguation clarifying that perfect goodness in this context means moral goodness specifically, not goodness in some other sense)
    Perfect moral goodness, understood as a perfection attributed to an absolutely perfect being

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