Evil and the God of Abraham, Anselm, and Murphy

Mark Murphy's attempt to solve the problem of evil appeals to the hypothesis, which I call ‘Murphy's hypothesis', that an Anselmian God only has justifying reasons and not requiring reasons to promote the well-being of Her sentient creatures. Given this hypothesis, the distribution of...

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Auteur principal: Draper, Paul 1957- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: [2017]
Dans: Religious studies
Année: 2017, Volume: 53, Numéro: 4, Pages: 564-572
Compte rendu de:God's own ethics (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Draper, Paul)
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Anselm, Canterbury, Erzbischof, Heiliger 1033-1109 / Le mal / Dieu
Classifications IxTheo:AB Philosophie de la religion
NBC Dieu
Sujets non-standardisés:B Compte-rendu de lecture
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Résumé:Mark Murphy's attempt to solve the problem of evil appeals to the hypothesis, which I call ‘Murphy's hypothesis', that an Anselmian God only has justifying reasons and not requiring reasons to promote the well-being of Her sentient creatures. Given this hypothesis, the distribution of benefits and harms that we observe in the world is not unexpected on Anselmian theism. I argue that Murphy fails to solve the problem of evil for two reasons. First, he incorrectly equates the probability of the distribution of benefits and harms given theism with the probability of that distribution given theism conjoined with Murphy's hypothesis. Second, he fails to solve the evidential problem of immorality for Christian Anselmian theists and in fact his views make that problem significantly worse.
ISSN:1469-901X
Référence:Kritik in "Replies to Wielenberg, Irwin, and Draper (2017)"
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412517000373