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John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. ... In 1955 he published "Evil and Omnipotence", which summarized his view ...
Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955. [2] [3] Mackie's formulation of the logical problem of evil argued that three attributes ascribed to God (omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence) are logically incompatible with the existence of evil.
Mackie, J. L., "Evil and Omnipotence." Mind LXIV, No, 254 (April 1955). Wierenga, Edward. "Omnipotence" The Nature of God: An Inquiry into Divine Attributes. Cornell University Press, 1989. (Accessed on 19 April 2006) Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Available online via Project Gutenberg. Accessed 19 April 2006.
The problem of evil is often given in the form of an inconsistent triad. For example, J. L. Mackie gave the following three propositions: God is omnipotent; God is omnibenevolent; Evil exists; Mackie argued that these propositions were inconsistent, and thus, that at least one of these propositions must be false. Either:
J. L. Mackie; Walter Kaufmann ... described the conflict between divine omnipotence and his creation's person's free will, in traditional terms of good and evil ...
J. L. Mackie saw Plantinga's free-will defense as incoherent. [36] Plantinga's well-received book God, Freedom and Evil, written in 1974, gave his response to what he saw as the incomplete and uncritical view of theism's criticism of theodicy. Plantinga's contribution stated that when the issue of a comprehensive doctrine of freedom is added to ...
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J. L. Mackie, "Evil and Omnipotence" (in Mind) Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization; Paul Ricoeur, History and Truth; Lionel Trilling, Freud and the Crisis of Our Culture; Simone Weil, Oppression and Liberty