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Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Philosophia. Aug2023, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p61-67. 7p.

Abstract: Parler de philosophie de la Shoah présuppose une philosophie de la philosophie qui se tiendrait dans la pré- ou post-position d'un sens et la subsomption d'un objet sous un concept. Or il n'y a pas de concept de la Shoah parce qu'il n'y a nulle intelli...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Jul2023, Vol. 14 Issue 7, p843. 15p.

Abstract: In this article, I sketch, both in broad outlines and in selected details, the new, richer picture of von Hildebrand's account of moral evil as it emerges from my discovery of extensive materials in von Hildebrand´s Nachlass at the Bavarian State Libra...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Jun2023, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p715. 17p.

Abstract: The problem of evil seems to have been the patent of theism for a long time. However, some philosophers notice that this is not necessarily the case and raise arguments from evil against atheism. In this paper, I follow this insight and raise the evide...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Mar2023, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p307. 6p.

Abstract: James Sterba's new treatise advancing a logical argument from evil against the existence of God fails in one respect and succeeds in another. As with all claimants to having found such a thing before him, Sterba fails in properly achieving a logical ar...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Mar2023, Vol. 14 Issue 3, p296. 17p.

Abstract: James Sterba has recently constructed a new and compelling logical problem of evil that rejects Plantinga's free-will defense and employs the concept of significant freedom and the Pauline Principle to demonstrate an incompatibility between the existen...

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Source(s): Religions. Feb2023, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p227. 15p.

Abstract: James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem of evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given that there are powerful moral requirements to prevent evil, where one can, and that these requi...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Feb2023, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p228. 5p.

Abstract: I argue that James Sterba's argument from evil involves a category mistake. He applies moral principles that pertain to ethical requirements that apply within creation to what may be called the ethics or axiology of creating and sustaining creation. Th...

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Source(s): Religions. Feb2023, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p200. 15p.

Abstract: Logical and evidential arguments from evil are generally thought to have been rebutted by various refutations, defenses, and theodicies. While disparate, these responses employ similar strategies to show that God has morally sufficient reasons to permi...

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Source(s): Religions. Feb2023, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p159. 10p.

Abstract: Jim Sterba's Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie's logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking to give a theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented the term: the search for some ...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Religions. Feb2023, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p157. 9p.

Abstract: In his recent version of the logical problem of evil, James Sterba articulates several moral principles that, on the assumption that God is morally perfect, seem to entail God's non-existence. Such moral principles, however, only apply to God on the as...