ABSTRACT

A standard reaction to the problem of evil is to look for a greater good that can explain why God (with the traditional attributes) might have created this world instead of a seemingly better one which has no (or less) evil. This paper proposes an approach we call the Moral Progress Approach: Given the value of progress, a non-perfect world containing evil may be preferable to a perfect world without evil. This makes room for the possibility that this world, with all its evil, may be preferable to a world with less evil. We argue that our proposal is different from apparently similar views such as soul-making theodicy.

中文翻译：

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邪恶问题的进展

摘要

对邪恶问题的标准反应是寻找一个更大的善来解释为什么上帝（具有传统属性）可能创造了这个世界，而不是一个没有（或更少）邪恶的看似更好的世界。本文提出了一种我们称之为道德进步方法的方法：鉴于进步的价值，一个包含邪恶的非完美世界可能比一个没有邪恶的完美世界更可取。这为这样一种可能性提供了空间，即这个充满邪恶的世界可能比一个邪恶较少的世界更可取。我们争辩说，我们的提议不同于表面上相似的观点，例如造魂神论。