Human Freedom and the Logic of Natural Evil
Author: Richard Worsley
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Published: 1991
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Worsley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-27
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1349243213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorsley argues that it is rational to believe in a realist, loving God in the face of evil. Beginning with a critique of Alvin Plantinga, he shows that human freedom is highly complex, and so depends upon complex structures in nature. These are both necessary for freedom but also sufficient for natural evil. He offers close analysis of the evolution of the human brain. The book develops a parallel argument that human evil stems from the evolution of personality.
Author: William L. Rowe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2008-10-17
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0253114098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs evil evidence against the existence of God? A collection of essays by philosophers, theologians, and other scholars. Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians, and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism. Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, Bruce Russell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen John Wykstra.
Author: Peter van Inwagen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0199543976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe vast amount of suffering in the world is often held as a particularly powerful reason to deny that God exists. Highly accessible and carefully argued, Peter van Inwagen's book maintains that such reasoning does not hold, and that suffering should not undermine belief in God.
Author: David Hume
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Published: 1779
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work written by the Scottish philosopher David Hume. Through dialogue, three fictional characters named Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes debate the nature of God's existence. While all three agree that a god exists, they differ sharply in opinion on God's nature or attributes and how, or if, humankind can come to knowledge of a deity. In the Dialogues, Hume's characters debate a number of arguments for the existence of God, and arguments whose proponents believe through which we may come to know the nature of God. Such topics debated include the argument from design - for which Hume uses a house - and whether there is more suffering or good in the world (Argument from evil)
Author: William Hunt
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781793634290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvil and Many Worlds is a free-will theodicy based upon Huw Everett III's 1957 many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The theodicy argues for a balance of good and evil across an emergent multiverse where free will--a greater good valued by both persons and God-- flourishes.
Author: James P. Sterba
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-16
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 3030054691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. It is widely held by theists and atheists alike that it may be logically impossible for an all good, all powerful God to create a world with moral agents like ourselves that does not also have at least some moral evil in it. James P. Sterba focuses on the further question of whether God is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world. The negative answer he provides marks a new stage in the age-old debate about God's existence.
Author: David E. Alexander
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-07-13
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1532601026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContrary to what many philosophers believe, Calvinism neither makes the problem of evil worse nor is it obviously refuted by the presence of evil and suffering in our world. Or so most of the authors in this book claim. While Calvinism has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years amongst theologians and laypersons, many philosophers have yet to follow suit. The reason seems fairly clear: Calvinism, many think, cannot handle the problem of evil with the same kind of plausibility as other more popular views of the nature of God and the nature of God's relationship with His creation. This book seeks to challenge that untested assumption. With clarity and rigor, this collection of essays seeks to fill a significant hole in the literature on the problem of evil.
Author: Rev Fr. Francis Iyke Agada
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-07-22
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1504945484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnselm has an amazing thought pattern that captures attention, though very complex, yet one cannot resist his arguments to the next page, which is a joy to read. Michael Ivan, PhD Anselm writes with grace and wit about one of the fundamental issues of our time, drawn from the most ancient to recent research and arguments. He makes the science of old-aged issues on human freedom accessible and insightful to contemporary readers. Iwueke Charles, B Phil Could it be that God views our freedom as a threat to his own powers? God and Human freedom
Author: Brown
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Published: 1997-09-01
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780536006523
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