Sufferer-Centered Requirements on Theodicy and All-Things-Considered Harms
Sufferer-Centered Requirements on Theodicy and All-Things-Considered Harms
Both Marilyn Adams and Eleonore Stump have endorsed requirements on theodicy which, if true, imply that we can never suffer all-things-considered harms. William Hasker has offered a series of arguments intended to show that this implication is unacceptable. This chapter evaluates Hasker’s arguments and finds them lacking. However, it also argues that Hasker’s arguments can be modified or expanded in ways that make them very powerful. The chapter closes by considering why God might not meet the requirements endorsed by Stump and Adams and shows how they can modify their requirements to avoid the untenable implications about harm while still respecting the concerns that motivated their requirements in the first place.
Keywords: problem of evil, sufferer-centered requirements, Marilyn McCord Adams, Eleonore Stump, William Hasker
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