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Horrendous evils and the ethical perfection of God
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Horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in an ethically perfect God. To home in on these challenges, I construct an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrors are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit (i.e., a benefit that does not avert a still greater harm) or for harm avoidance.
I then bring the framework and the moral valuations confirmed by this casuistry to bear on the project of theodicy. I constr...
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+ Lodge, P
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- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
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- Supervisor
+ Adams, M
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- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
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- Supervisor
+ Adams, R
- Division:
- HUMS
- Department:
- Philosophy Faculty
- Role:
- Supervisor
- Publication date:
- 2012
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
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English
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2012-10-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Vincent Vitale
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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