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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"gratuitous evil"”.
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God and Gratuitous Evil
… for atheism as follows: (1) There seem to be evils God could have prevented without losing a greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse, and (2) God would not allow such evils. This dissertation examines (2), the "No Gratuitous Evil Thesis," and its role in Rowe's argument. In …
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"Whether God exists"
… in the final chapter, we turn to the problem of evil. We discuss the possible existence of gratuitous evils (evils which achieve no good ends). We then argue that the most plausible response to gratuitous evil is Skeptical Theism, that is, that we are unable to know God's intentions. But that …