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- Title
Artigo de Reflexão Deus, o mal e a metafísica do livre arbítrio.
- Authors
Plantinga, Alvin; Pontes, André Nascimento; Silvestre, Ricardo Sousa
- Abstract
This paper is a translation to Portuguese of the ninth chapter of Alvin Plantinga's 1974 book The Nature of Necessity, in which the famous freewill defense for the problem of evil is presented in its most complete form. By making use of the theory of possible worlds developed in the previous chapters of the book, Plantinga engages in a recognizably successful attempt to show that the existence of evil is not inconsistent with the existence of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient being. In addition to the translation, we provide a brief introduction to Plantinga's free-will defense and to the debate about God and evil in the analytic philosophy of religion.
- Subjects
THEODICY; OPEN theism; ANALYTIC philosophy; PLANTINGA, Alvin; GOOD &; evil; RELIGION
- Publication
Filosofia UNISINOS, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 3, p317
- ISSN
1519-5023
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/fsu.2009.103.07