Every version of the argument from evil requires a premise concerning
God's motivation - about the actions that God is motivated to perform
or the states of affairs that God is motivated to bring about. The
typical source of this premise is a conviction that God is, obviously,
morally perfect, where God's moral perfection consists in God's being
motivated to act in accordance with the norms of morality by which
both we and God are governed. The aim of God's Own Ethics is to
challenge this understanding by giving arguments against this view of
God as morally perfect and by offering an alternative account of what
God's own ethics is like. According to this alternative account, God
is in no way required to promote the well-being of sentient creatures,
though God may rationally do so. Any norms of conduct that favor the
promotion of creaturely well-being that govern God's conduct are norms
that are contingently self-imposed by God. This revised understanding
of divine ethics should lead us to revise sharply downward our
assessment of the force of the argument from evil while leaving intact
our conception of God as an absolutely perfect being, supremely worthy
of worship.
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Norms of divine agency and the argument from evil
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ISBN
9780192517173
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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