Progress on the Problem of Evil
(2021) In International Journal of Philosophical Studies 29(2). p.221-235- Abstract
A standard reaction to the problem of evil is to look for a greater good that can explain why God (with the traditional attributes) might have created this world instead of a seemingly better one which has no (or less) evil. This paper proposes an approach we call the Moral Progress Approach: Given the value of progress, a non-perfect world containing evil may be preferable to a perfect world without evil. This makes room for the possibility that this world, with all its evil, may be preferable to a world with less evil. We argue that our proposal is different from apparently similar views such as soul-making theodicy.
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- author
- Eslami, Seyyed Mohsen and Egonsson, Dan LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Moral progress, problem of evil, soul making, theodicy
- in
- International Journal of Philosophical Studies
- volume
- 29
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 221 - 235
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85104960214
- ISSN
- 0967-2559
- DOI
- 10.1080/09672559.2021.1918748
- language
- English
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- yes
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- a0253654-284e-4fc6-88a8-f5e588da25f8
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