Human Freedom and the Logic of Natural Evil
Author | : Richard Worsley |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Richard Worsley |
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Release | : 1991 |
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Author | : Richard Worsley |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1349243213 |
Worsley 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 Hunt |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1793634300 |
In Evil and Many Worlds: A Free-Will Theodicy, William Hunt presents a unique approach to explaining how God and evil can coexist despite the abundance of moral and natural evils blighting our world, which imply that an omnibenevolent God is unlikely to exist. This theodicy is based upon Huw Everett III's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, whereby reality is not what it intuitively seems; instead, it is a multiverse comprising a vast number of universes, and we simultaneously exist in many of them. This multiplicity of existence results in a balance of moral good and evil across the multiverse, and through this, the expression of free will—an attribute valued by both persons and God— flourishes. The theodicy explains the coexistence of God and natural evil through the necessity of an evolutionary process that ensures the emergence of free-willed persons. Notwithstanding this universal perspective of Creation, a resurrection possibility would mitigate individual suffering resulting from this divine holistic strategy. Hunt examines this possibility in light of the many-worlds interpretation.
Author | : William L. Rowe |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2008-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253114098 |
Is 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 |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2008-04-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199543976 |
The 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 | : Rev Fr. Francis Iyke Agada |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2015-07-22 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1504945484 |
Anselm 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 | : Ermanno Bencivenga |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195307356 |
This is a short monograph on Kant, specifically his ideas about freedom and morality, but with important relevance to questions at the heart of philosophy.
Author | : James P. Sterba |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2019-07-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030054691 |
Using 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 | : Mark T. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1999-08 |
Genre | : Free will and determinism |
ISBN | : 9780536028365 |
Author | : Steven Craig McHone |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Good and evil |
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