{"id":1198,"date":"2023-10-11T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/a-problem-of-evil-for-atheists\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T15:34:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:34:48","slug":"a-problem-of-evil-for-atheists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/a-problem-of-evil-for-atheists\/","title":{"rendered":"A Problem of Evil for Atheists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/a-problem-of-evil-for-atheists?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">Latest<\/a> <em>Substack<\/em> offering on evil.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/publish\/posts\/detail\/137846163?referrer=%2Fpublish%2Fhome\">Yesterday&#39;s<\/a> entry argued that the naturalist cannot explain the depth and depravity of moral evil. (We can &#39;thank&#39; the Islamist Nazis of Hamas for rubbing our noses in it once again.) Today&#39;s entry argues that a naturalist who is intellectually honest and not self-deceived must be a pessimist and an anti-natalist.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest Substack offering on evil.&#0160; Yesterday&#39;s entry argued that the naturalist cannot explain the depth and depravity of moral evil. (We can &#39;thank&#39; the Islamist Nazis of Hamas for rubbing our noses in it once again.) Today&#39;s entry argues that a naturalist who is intellectually honest and not self-deceived must be a pessimist and an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/a-problem-of-evil-for-atheists\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Problem of Evil for Atheists&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-evil","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}