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Dean Stretton

Dean Stretton

The Moral Argument from Evil (1999)

"[E]ven if theists can successfully respond to the evidential argument from evil, there is a further difficulty to be faced in the moral argument from evil. If evil is merely the harbinger of greater good, why should we be opposed to its occurrence, and why, indeed, should we be expected to prevent it?"

Review of David O'Connor, God and Inscutable Evil (2000)

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The Moral Argument from Evil

| January 1, 1999 | Modern Library
The Moral Argument from Evil (1999) Dean Stretton I. Introduction Theistic responses to the evidential argument from evil usually contend that God has morally justifying reason for allowing evil to occur.[1] There are, of course, many cases where we cannot think what that morally justifying reason might be. But, it is argued, this at most […]
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