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A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Twentieth

So Why Bother?Ideally one could argue that this installment should have come in toward the start of this entire rave. In my defense, I can only say that when I began this rave I really hadn't thought to include a number…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Nineteenth

A Discussion not Strictly NeededLast time I gave a bare-bones overview of Marylin McCord Adams' contribution to the current discussion of the problem of evil. One consequence of here argument would appear to be that in t…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Eighteenth

Horrendous Evils I forget who used this illustration (William Rowe comes to mind, but I'm not sure why, and besides, I'm not using it the way the author originally intended) but imagine a possible world where the only s…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Seventeenth

Getting Some PerspectiveBefore submitting this very brief entry, I'd like to make a book recommendation (occupational hazard of a librarian): On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia by Luis de Molina, translat…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Sixteenth

O Felix Culpa: A Response Last year, in the pages of journal Faith and Philosophy, (April 2008, vol 25, no. 2, pp. 123-140) Marilyn McCord Adams has leveled a series of criticism on Plantinga's latest answer to the p…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Fifteenth

O Felix Culpa At the risk of repeating a point to oblivion, Middle Knowledge—or at least a view of Middle Knowledge that assumes incompatiblist or libertarian freedom—does not answer the challenge that evil presents. …
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Fourteenth

Counterparts, Providence, and Recalcitrance Allow me to recap the last blog. Middle Knowledge faces an ontological difficulty; it cannot stand on its own but must be seen as a special case of either Natural or Free Kn…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Thirteenth

A Coin Toss Imagine the toss of a fair coin. Now imagine one hundred such tosses and again a thousand. In one hundred fair tosses, one would expect about fifty to come up heads and fifty tails, with one thousand one w…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Twelfth

Excursus on Free WillI have been trying to formulate my thoughts in an on and off manner, but yesterday our Senior Warden brought up the topic. It is a thing he is wont to do, no matter how tangential it seems to the ori…
A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Eleventh

Extending the Metaphor Recapping David Ray's Griffin's objections from the last part of this rave. Given all the evil (and in particular suffering) in this world that can be traced to libertarian freedom, things woul…