Ignorance, Instrumentality, Compensation, and the Problem of Evil

Some theodicists, skeptical theists, and friendly atheists agree that God-justifying reasons for permitting evils would have to have an instrumental structure: that is, the evils would have to be necessary to secure a great enough good or necessary to prevent some equally bad or worse evil. D.Z. Phi...

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Main Author: Adams, Marilyn McCord 1943-2017 (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2013
In: Sophia
Year: 2013, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 7-26
Further subjects:B Instrumental reasons
B Compensation
B Appeal to ignorance
B Horrors
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