God, the best, and evil

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Langtry Bruce
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford
Publication Dates: 2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: ix, 237 p.: ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780199238798
0199238790
Index Number: B972
CLC: B972
Call Number: B972/L286
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-234) and index.
Introduction: Problems, concepts, and background theories -- God and worlds than which there are none better -- Divine choice from infinite hierarchies of creatable worlds -- World creation when there are prime worlds -- Empirical objections to theism, not based on evil -- Logical arguments from evil, against the existence of God -- Theodicy for two general truths about evil -- Evidential arguments from evil, against the existence of God.