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Necessary Suffering and Lewisian Theism
Sophia ( IF 0.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-09 , DOI: 10.1007/s11841-020-00818-0
Matthew James Collier

One can readily conceive of worlds of horrendous, gratuitous suffering. Moreover, such worlds seem possible. For classical theists, however, God, amongst other things, is perfectly good. So, the question arises: for classical theists are such evil worlds possible? Many classical theists have said no. This is the modal problem of evil. Herein, I discuss a related problem: the problem of evil worlds for Lewisian theism. Lewisian theism is the conjunction of Lewis’s modal realism and classical theism, and a leading Lewisian theist, Almeida, thinks that Lewisian theists should admit the existence of on-balance evil worlds. I do not. Herein, I present a dilemma for Almeida: either give up God’s sovereignty and the reductionist account of modality or make God blameworthy for evil.



中文翻译:

必要的苦难与路易斯主义的有神论

人们可以轻易地想到可怕,无故的痛苦世界。而且,这样的世界似乎是可能的。但是,对于古典有神论者而言,神尤其是善良的。因此,出现了一个问题:对于古典有神论者来说,这样的邪恶世界可能吗?许多古典有神论者都拒绝了。这是邪恶的模态问题。在这里,我讨论一个相关的问题:刘易斯有神论的邪恶世界问题。刘易斯神学是刘易斯的模态现实主义和古典神学的结合,领先的刘易斯有神论者阿尔梅达(Almeida)认为刘易斯有神论者应承认存在平衡的邪恶世界。我不。在这里,我为阿尔梅达提出了一个两难选择:要么放弃上帝的主权和对形式主义的还原主义描述,要么让上帝对邪恶负责。

更新日期:2021-03-14
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