Arguments about the logical and evidential problem of evil
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Premises (1) through (6) validly imply conclusion (7), i.e., that God does not exist.
When one conceives of God as unlimited with respect to power, knowledge, and moral goodness, the existence of evil quickly gives rise to potentially serious arguments against the existence of God.
(28b) is false
A Divine Command Theory that does not ground God's commands in God's essential goodness faces the Euthyphro dilemma
A criticism of type (A) does involve radical skepticism of inductive reasoning in general.
A defense against the problem of evil does not require a story that can be shown to be likely true; it only requires a story that, for all we know, is not unlikely.
A defense differs from a theodicy in that a defense attempts to show only that some God-justifying reasons probably exist, without attempting to specify what those reasons are.
A stable world of natural laws in which God's existence is not certain is good
Adopting belief in God via Pascal's Wager makes one complicit in an immoral divine plan.
Advaitic theology has practical power to heal human problems such as low self-esteem and the caste system
Affliction and an omnipotent, wholly benevolent God can coexist.
An appeal to free will provides no answer to an argument from evil that focuses upon natural evils.
An appeal to libertarian free will is problematic.
An ideal world would not be one in which vice and suffering must exist so that it may contain appropriate emotions toward them
Animal suffering does not require afterlife compensation
Any axiological formulation of the argument from evil is incomplete in a crucial respect.
Assumption (1), as interpreted by Rowe, is eminently reasonable.
Attributing world badness directly to God undermines God's goodness
Badness and disorder in the world are caused by the non-rational aspect of the world soul
Bayle's doctrine on the problem of evil does not recommend irrational fideism
Bosanquet fails to take evil seriously
Christ resolves Weil's principal contradiction between the necessary and the good.
Cleanthes' concession that happiness must exceed misery is fatal to the religious position
Condillac failed to appreciate the strength of the objection from analogy
Condillac's account of animal suffering is vulnerable to an objection by analogy with small children
Even if the evidential argument from evil is sound, its conclusion is not really significant.
Even when rationality prevails in the world soul, there is room for disharmony and disorder in the cosmos
Evil can be justified because it provides opportunities to realize great values
Evil can ultimately come from God (a good source) without contradiction
Evil in man is ascribable to his matter and to the absence of knowledge
knowledge
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
Omniscient
Knowing everything—all facts, all truths, and all events (past, present, and future).
omnipotent
A being whose will is never thwarted; a being capable of bringing about any willed outcome.
the problem of evil
The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.
probability
A number between 0 and 1 that describes how likely something is to happen; 0.5 means 50% chance, 1 means certain, 0 means impossible.
Morally perfect
Always acting in ways that are completely good and right, without any moral flaws or failings.
problem of evil
The philosophical challenge of vindicating God's moral attributes (particularly omnipotence and perfect goodness) in light of the existence of evil in the world
rightmaking properties
The features or characteristics of an action that make it morally right or good.
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