On Necessary Gratuitous Evils
The standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil makes the prevention of gratuitous evil a necessary condition on moral perfection. I argue that, on any analysis of gratuitous evil we choose, the standard position on moral perfection and gratuitous evil is false. It is metaphysically im...
| Subtitles: | Special Issue - Evolutionary Research on Morality and Theological Ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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| In: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 3, Pages: 117-135 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Moral development
/ Perfection
/ Evil
/ Avoidance of
/ Impossibility (Philosophy)
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
gratuitous
B necessary B Evil B necessity of evil B problem of evil B Gratuitous Evil |
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