On Necessary Gratuitous Evils
The standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil makes the prevention of gratuitous evil a necessary condition on moral perfection. I argue that, on any analysis of gratuitous evil we choose, the standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil is false. It is metaphysically im...
| Nebentitel: | Special Issue - Evolutionary Research on Morality and Theological Ethics |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2020, Band: 12, Heft: 3, Seiten: 117-135 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Moralische Entwicklung
/ Vervollkommnung
/ Übel
/ Vermeidung
/ Unmöglichkeit (Philosophie)
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus NBC Gotteslehre NCA Ethik VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
gratuitous
B necessary B Evil B necessity of evil B problem of evil B Gratuitous Evil |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil makes the prevention of gratuitous evil a necessary condition on moral perfection. I argue that, on any analysis of gratuitous evil we choose, the standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil is false. It is metaphysically impossible to prevent every gratuitously evil state of affairs in every possible world. No matter what God does—no matter how many gratuitously evil states of affairs God prevents—it is necessarily true that God coexists with gratuitous evil in some world or other. Since gratuitous evil cannot be eliminated from metaphysical space, the existence of gratuitous evil presents no objection to essentially omnipotent, essentially omniscient, essentially morally perfect, and necessarily existing beings. |
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| Enthält: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i3.3019 |