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A Problem for Theodicists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Theodore Benditt
Theodore Benditt
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University of Southern California
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Philosophy , Volume 50 , Issue 194 , October 1975 , pp. 470 - 474
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1975

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References

1 See Wallace, Gerald, ‘The Problems of Moral and Physical Evil’, Philosophy, 46, 1971, pp. 349–351.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 For the sake of the argument to be presented, I take it without argument to be the case that God is not incapable, due to having established certain laws of nature, preventing a piece of physical evil that will not itself be necessary for the production of good. See Mackie, J. L., ‘Evil and Omnipotence’, Mind, LXIV, 1955, pp. 205–206 and 210–212.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Mind, XLIV, 1935.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., pp. 14–15; italics in original.

5 See Ibid., p. 15.