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RA035: Andrew Pavelich on the Moral Problem with the Free Will Defense
Real Atheology
English - March 26, 2023 03:22 - 1 hour - 72.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality atheism naturalism philosophyofreligion schieber theism watkins Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Perhaps the most common response to the problem of evil is an appeal to the goodness of free will. Free will, it is argued, is so good that it justifies God's policy of non-intervention in cases where evil is the result of the free actions of moral agents. in his 2019 article published in The Heythrop Journal titled The Moral Problem with the Free Will Defense Against the Problem of Evil, Dr. Andrew Pavelich argues that there exists a deep disconnect between the theist's appraisal of free will's value and the role it plays in our everyday moral judgements. In Justin's interview with Dr. Pavelich, they discuss the ideas in that paper.