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A Nietzschean theodicy

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A Nietzschean theodicy would claimthat God has created the world exactly the wayit is in order to produce morally autonomousagents in Nietzsche's sense: self-consciousmoral subjectivists. Both atheism and a`Nietzschean theodicy' make the sameprediction: the world will appear to containgratuitous evil. Thus, observation ofapparently gratuitous evil is not evidence foror against either hypothesis. In the absenceof any other evidence for or against theism,the most reasonable position is agnosticism.

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  1. Ithaca College, 109 Dillingham Center, Ithaca, NY, 14850-7286, USA

    Carol A. Kates

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Kates, C.A. A Nietzschean theodicy. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 55, 69–82 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:RELI.0000025046.56854.63

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