Moral evil and human freedom: A reply to Tierno

Many theists believe that the so-called ‘free will defence’ successfully undermines the antitheist argument from moral evil. However, in a recent issue of this journal Joel Thomas Tierno provides the ‘adequacy argument’ in order to show an alleged difficulty with the free will defence. I argue that...

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Main Author: Nagasawa, Yujin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2003
In: Sophia
Year: 2003, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 107-111
Further subjects:B Human Freedom
B Recent Issue
B Evil Action
B Innocent Person
B Moral Evil
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Summary:Many theists believe that the so-called ‘free will defence’ successfully undermines the antitheist argument from moral evil. However, in a recent issue of this journal Joel Thomas Tierno provides the ‘adequacy argument’ in order to show an alleged difficulty with the free will defence. I argue that the adequacy argument fails because it equivocates on the notion of moral evil.
ISSN:1873-930X
Contains:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF02782402