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Defeating the Evil-God Challenge: In Defence of God’s Goodness

Autor Jack Symes
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iun 2024
The evil-god challenge is one of the most popular topics in contemporary philosophy of religion. In this landmark text, Jack Symes offers the most detailed examination of the challenge to date. Exploring the nature of god through the leading schools of philosophical theology, Symes argues that it is significantly more reasonable to attribute goodness to god than evil. Drawing from a breadth of ground-breaking material - in metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics and epistemology - Symes claims to defeat the evil-god challenge on behalf of traditional theism.Is it any more reasonable to believe in a good god than an evil god? Not according to proponents of the evil-god challenge. After all, the world contains a significant amount of good and evil for which either god could be held responsible. However, if belief in both gods is equally as reasonable, then religious believers are unjustified in favouring one hypothesis over the other. Therefore, in order to defend their faith, theists must respond to the evil-god challenge: the question of what justifies belief in good god over evil god.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350419285
ISBN-10: 1350419281
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Develops a range of asymmetries that serve to undermine the symmetry thesis in favour of good god

Notă biografică

Jack Symes is a public philosopher and writer. He is the producer of The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast and editor of the Bloomsbury series Talking about Philosophy. He is currently Teacher and Researcher at Durham University, UK.

Cuprins

List of Figures Preface AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Constructing the Challenge 2. The Greatest Conceivable Being3. The Bloody Watchmaker 4. God Revealed Conclusion Notes & Sources Bibliography Index

Recenzii

This is the most thorough treatment of the widely-discussed evil-god challenge to date. Symes clearly identifies the strongest version of the challenge and then patiently constructs a robust response, showing how the three main approaches to theology strongly favour attributing goodness rather than evil to god. Required reading for anyone interested in the topic.