In this essay, I revisit the univocity thesis, Sterba’s analogy between God and a leader of politically liberal society, and, most fundamentally, whether existence horrendous evils is logically compatible with good God. concede that typical appeals to free will greater goods defenses block logical problem evil are not sufficient because they do adequately address all too much feature human exis...

According to Schopenhauer's compensation argument for pessimism, the non-existence of world is preferable its existence because no goods can ever compensate mere evil. Standard interpretations take this be based on thesis that all are merely negation evils, from which they assume it follows apparent in life fact empty and without value. This article develops a non-standard variant standard inte...

I argue that Stephen Wykstra’s much discussed Parent Analogy is helpful in responding to the evidential problem of evil when it expanded upon from a positive skeptical theist framework. This framework, defended by John Depoe, says although we often remain dark about first-order reasons God allows particular instances suffering, can have second-order would create world with seemingly gratuitous ...

Pulmonary tuberculosis, although not generally believed to be so, is very common in India, especially in large towns and cities. The annual public health reports from various provinces clearly show that it is on an increase primarily in the large cities, affecting the larger towns to a less extent, and still less the villages. The principal pre'disposing causes are also increasing owing to more...