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Marilyn McCord Adams, “Problems of Evil: More Advice to Christian Philosophers,”Faith and Philosophy 5 (1988): 121–143.
R.M. Chisholm distinguishes between evil beingoutweighed orbalanced off, and its beingdefeated. According to his definition, ‘when evil is defeated by a whole that is not bad, then the whole does not contain any part that is better than the whole itself.’ Chisholm claims that the theodicist can deal with the problem of evil only by saying that the evils in the world are defeated. However I do not think he is correct. Cf. R.M. Chisholm, “The Defeat of Good and Evil,” Presidential Address to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1969.
Thomas V. Morris, ‘Duty and Divine Goodness,’American Philosophical Quarterly 21 (1984): 226. The paper is reprinted in Morris'sAnselmian Explorations (University of Notre Dame Press, 1987).
Morris, op. cit., p. 267.
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I thank Allen Hazen for detecting a fallacy in an earlier version of this paper.
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Langtry, B. Some internal theodicies and the objection from alternative goods. Int J Philos Relig 34, 29–39 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01316978
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