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The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson. Published on December 18, 1965, in the Saturday Evening Post, [1] a few months after her death, it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery short story. [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Just an Ordinary Day (1996) and Dark Tales (2016).
Alvin Plantinga in 2004. Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. [1]
The evidential problem of evil (also referred to as the probabilistic or inductive version of the problem) seeks to show that the existence of evil, although logically consistent with the existence of God, counts against or lowers the probability of the truth of theism. Both absolute versions and relative versions of the evidential problems of ...
Van Inwagen gave the 2003 Gifford Lectures; they are published in his The Problem of Evil. [17] There Van Inwagen argues that the problem of evil is a philosophical argument and, like most philosophical arguments, fails. Van Inwagen has shown an interest in the afterlife debate, particularly in relation to resurrection of the body. In his ...
352-355 The real conception of freedom is the possibility of good and evil. 356-357 Critique of the abstract conception of God; Naturphilosophie. 357-358 Ground of God and light. 359-366 Critique of immanence. 366-373 Conception of evil according to Baader. 373-376 Evil is necessary for God's revelation; exegesis of "matter" in Plato.
The unbeliever who had provoked this long analysis to counter his previous objection ("Maybe I bet too much") is still not ready to join the apologist on the side of faith. He put forward two new objections, undermining the foundations of the wager: the impossibility to know, and the obligation of playing.
The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.
Thomas Nagel (/ ˈ n eɪ ɡ əl /; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher.He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, [3] where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. [4]