A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge
- ECU Author/Contributor (non-ECU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Zachary Thomas Roupe (Creator)
- Institution
- East Carolina University (ECU )
- Web Site: http://www.ecu.edu/lib/
Abstract: In my project, I propose that pragmatic reasoning for believing in a good god does not fall prey to the Evil God challenge. The “Evil God challenge” is a philosophical argument that holds that the belief in favor of a supremely good god can be equally mirrored or parodied for the existence of a supremely evil god. The challenge does this by providing evidence and counter arguments for why an evil god is just as plausible as a good god. I contend that while the Evil God Challenge holds strong in its epistemic reasoning based approach, a pragmatic reasoning based approach will not allow the EGC challenge the same success.
Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2023
- Subjects
- philosophy of religion, evil-god challenge, pascal's wager
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