{"id":1697,"date":"2023-01-01T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/galen-strawson-on-god\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T13:28:00","slug":"galen-strawson-on-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/galen-strawson-on-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Galen Strawson on God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><em>Substack<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/williamfvallicella.substack.com\/p\/galen-strawson-on-god?sd=pf\">latest<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Does the fact of evil render the nonexistence of God <em>certain<\/em>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Tony Flood comments:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">A good one, Bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greg_Bahnsen\">Bahnsen<\/a> held that atheists, having no reason for affirming an absolute moral standard (which evil offends) can&#39;t even&#0160;<em>frame&#0160;<\/em>a problem of evil. He also held that the classic argument you summarized is missing a premise:&#0160;<em>God could not have a morally sufficient reason for permitting evil<\/em>. (That He hasn&#39;t shared it with us is neither here nor there.) If He does, however, the argument doesn&#39;t go through. What atheist has even attempted to argue for it?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substack latest.&#0160;Does the fact of evil render the nonexistence of God certain? &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. Tony Flood comments: A good one, Bill. Bahnsen held that atheists, having no reason for affirming an absolute moral standard (which evil offends) can&#39;t even&#0160;frame&#0160;a problem of evil. He also held that the classic argument you summarized is missing a premise:&#0160;God could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/01\/galen-strawson-on-god\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Galen Strawson on God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,50,464,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-good-and-evil","category-strawson-galen","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}