God and Inscrutable Evil In Defense of Theism and Atheism

Name: God and Inscrutable Evil In Defense of Theism and Atheism
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ISBN: 9780585114040

ISBN-10: 0585114048

ISBN-13: 9780585114040

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Authors: David O'Connor

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In this important new book, David O'Connor discusses both logical and empirical forms of the problem of inscrutable evil, perennially the most difficult philosophical problem confronting theism. Arguing that both a version of theism ("friendly theism") and a version of atheism ("friendly atheism") are justified on the evidence in the debate over God and evil, O'Connor concludes that a warranted outcome is a philosophical detente between those two positions. On the way to that conclusion he develops two arguments from evil, a reformed version of the logical argument and an indirect version of the empirical argument, and deploys both against a central formulation of theism that he describes…

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List price: $104.00
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Binding: E-Book
Language: English



Preface



Introduction: Theism's Problem of Evil



In the Spirit of Hume



Theism and Gratuitous Evil



Orthodox Theism and the Reformed Logical Problem of Natural Evil



Swinburne's Greater-Good Defense



Plantinga's Free-Will Defense



Schlesinger's No-Best-Possible-World Defense



The Empirical Problem of Evil (1)



The Empirical Problem Of Evil (2)



Skeptical Theism and Friendly Atheism



A Wider Detente


Notes


Index


About the Author