Defending the Free Will Defense: A Reply to Sterba
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چکیده
James Sterba has recently argued that the free will defense fails to explain compossibility of a perfect God and amount degree moral evil we see. I think he is mistaken about this. thus find myself in awkward unexpected position, as non-theist myself, defending defense. In this paper, try show once take care focus on what trying accomplish, by means it tries do so, see Sterba’s criticism misses mark.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Religions
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2077-1444']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111126