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    The free will defense does not provide a complete solutio... — Carmelics
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    The free will defense does not provide a complete solution to the problem of evil.

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    • 1.The free will defense deals only with moral evil.
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    • 2.Not all sorrows and failures of the world can be categorized as moral evil.
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    • 3.Even if the free will defense succeeds, there remains a residuum of natural evil to be addressed.
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    • 1.The free will defense deals only with moral evil.
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    • 2.Not all of the sorrows and failures of the world can be gathered under the category of moral evil.
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    • 3.Even if the free will defense succeeds, there will remain a residuum of natural evil to be addressed.
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    • 1.John Hick's soul-making theodicy treats natural evil as a necessary condition for the development of virtues like courage, compassion, and moral seriousness.
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    • 2.If natural evils serve as the indispensable environment for human moral and spiritual development, they require no separate defense beyond the teleological framework the free will defense already presupposes.
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    • 3.The claim that a 'residuum' of natural evil remains unaddressed assumes the free will defense must stand alone, ignoring that theodicies are cumulative and complementary.
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    • 1.Alvin Plantinga's free will defense can be extended to natural evil by positing that fallen angels or demonic agents exercise free will in causing natural disasters.
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    • 2.If non-human free agents are responsible for natural evil, then the free will defense applies to the full range of evils, not merely moral evil produced by humans.
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    The free will defense does not, in most formulations, attempt a complete solution to the problem of evil. It deals only with moral evil, and although we have seen that this category covers more than might at first be supposed, it certainly does not appear that all of the sorrows and failures of the world can be gathered under it. Even if the free will defense succeeds then, there will remain a residuum of natural evil to be addressed. It may, however, be questioned whether the defense succeeds even in the limited project it undertakes. One criticism of it raises a question about the relation b...
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that the free will defense "does not, in most formulations, attempt a complete solution to the problem of evil" and supports this with the premises that it deals only with moral evil and that natural evil remains unaddressed, matching the extracted argument.

    Confidence: Explicitly stated in the text.

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