Abstract
In this chapter, I put aside typical arguments from experienced evil to the belief that God does not exist. Instead, in the first section, my focus is on how experiences of evil provide epistemic support for atheism by analogy with the ways philosophers have claimed experiences allegedly of God provide support for theistic belief. In the second section, I will sketch other ways in which atheism gets support when a person experiences evil, ways not analogous to how philosophers have thought of theistic experience but yet not arguments from experience of evil.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The Blackwell Companion to The Problem of Evil |
Publisher | wiley |
Pages | 98-112 |
Number of pages | 15 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781118608005 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780470671849 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jan 2014 |
Keywords
- Acceptance
- Alston
- Direct support
- Experience of evil
- Mediated support
- Noetic reconstruction
- Plantinga
- Swinburne
- Value-attitude reformation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities