Organic Unities, Summation, and the Problem of Evil

Many attempts to respond to the problem of evil appeal to the concept of an organic unity. The first part of Chapter 8 explains Roderick Chisholm's views on organic unities, the concept of defeat, and how he thinks they bear on the problem of evil. The second part examines three prominent and r...

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Veröffentlicht in:Oxford studies in philosophy of religion
1. Verfasser: Lemos, Noah M. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Many attempts to respond to the problem of evil appeal to the concept of an organic unity. The first part of Chapter 8 explains Roderick Chisholm's views on organic unities, the concept of defeat, and how he thinks they bear on the problem of evil. The second part examines three prominent and recent objections to the principle of organic unities. Roughly, the objections are that (1) the principle of organic unities is incoherent, (2) it leads to \"evaluative schizophrenia,\" and (3) the examples that allegedly support it, do not, in fact, do so. It is argued that these objections give us no good reason to reject the principle of organic unities.