Aesthetics and the Problem of Evil.
Much of Western speculative metaphysics has subscribed to what has been called “explanatory rationalism,” which holds that there is a reason for everything that is and for the way everything is. Theodicies, or metaphysical attempts to solve the problem of evil, have relied on a special application o...
| Publicado en: | Metaphilosophy Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 250 - 284 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2003
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