From a logical point of vies is the evil against God?

Authors

  • Domingos Faria Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.2016.28389

Keywords:

Logical Problem of Evil, Free Will Defense, Mackie, Plantinga

Abstract

The aim of this paper, which isframed within philosophy of religion, is todeal with the logical problem of evil andmore specifically with the theory of freewill defense of Alvin Plantinga. I wantsurvey whether this is a plausible theoryand whether it resists to some objections. Iintend to hold that this theory seems resistto some objections.

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Author Biography

Domingos Faria, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa

Doutoramento em Filosofia, na linha de Epistemologia e Filosofia da Religião, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, com financiamento da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia ­ FCT, para o projecto «Fé: uma virtude ou um vício epistémico?». Membro do grupo LanCog (Language, Mind and Cognition) e do Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon ­ CFUL.

References

MACKIE, J. L. (1955) “Evil and Omnipotence” in Mind, New Series, Vol. 64, nº 254, pp. 200-212.

MACKIE, J. L. (1982) The Miracle of Theism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Otte, Richard (2009) “Transworld Depravity and Unobtainable Worlds”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXXVIII, nº 1, pp. 165-177.

PLANTINGA, Alvin (1974a) God, Freedom, and Evil. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

______. Alvin (1974b) The Nature of Necessity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

______. Alvin (2009) “Transworld Depravity, Transworld Sanctity, & Uncooperative Essences” in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXXVIII, nº 1, pp. 178-191.

PRUSS, Alexander (2008) “The Essential Divine-Perfection Objection to the Free-Will Defence” in Religious Studies 44, pp. 433-444.

SMITH, Quentin (1997) “A Sound Logical Argument from Evil” in Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language, Yale University Press, pp. 148-157.

Revista Aufklärung. v. 3, n. 1 (2016), Janeiro-Junho

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2016-04-21

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Faria, D. (2016). From a logical point of vies is the evil against God?. Aufklärung, 3(1), p.125–134. https://doi.org/10.18012/arf.2016.28389

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016): Revista Aufklärung. v. 3, n. 1 (2016), Janeiro-Junho

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