Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba

James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain the compossibility of a perfect God and the amount and degree of moral evil that we see. I think he is mistaken about this. I thus find myself in the awkward and unexpected position, as a non-theist myself, of defending the...

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Main Author: Oliveira, Luis R. G. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, Volume: 13, Issue: 11
Further subjects:B James Sterba
B Free will defense
B Alvin Plantinga
B logical problem of evil
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