On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering

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Veröffentlicht in:	Religions 12(2021,1) Artikel 64
Personen und Körperschaften:	Reichenbach, Bruce R. (VerfasserIn)
Titel:	On James Sterba’s Refutation of Theistic Arguments to Justify Suffering
Format:	E-Book-Kapitel
Sprache:	Englisch
veröffentlicht:	[2021]
Gesamtaufnahme:	: Religions, 12(2021,1) Artikel 64 , volume:12
Schlagwörter:	James Sterba ethical principles existence of God moral evil natural evil problem of evil theodicies
Quelle:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen
Kommentar in:	Sterba, James P., 1943 - : Sixteen Contributors

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Zusammenfassung:	In his recent book Is a Good God Logically Possible? and article by the same name, James Sterba argued that the existence of significant and horrendous evils, both moral and natural, is incompatible with the existence of God. He advances the discussion by invoking three moral requirements and by creating an analogy with how the just state would address such evils, while protecting significant freedoms and rights to which all are entitled. I respond that his argument has important ambiguities and that consistent application of his moral principles will require that God remove all moral and natural evils. This would deleteriously restrict not only human moral decision making, but also the knowledge necessary to make moral judgments. He replies to this critique by appealing to the possibility of limited divine intervention, to which I rejoin with reasons why his middle ground is not viable.
ISSN:	2077-1444
DOI:	10.3390/rel12010064