God, evil and the metaphysics of freedom

Autores/as

  • André Nascimento Pontes
  • Ricardo Sousa Silvestre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/5031

Resumen

This paper is a translation to Portuguese of the ninth chapter of Alvin Plantinga’s 1974 book The Nature of Necessity, in which the famous freewill defense for the problem of evil is presented in its most complete form. By making use of the theory of possible worlds developed in the previous chapters of the book, Plantinga engages in a recognizably successful attempt to show  that the existence of evil is not inconsistent with the existence of an omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omniscient being. In addition to the translation, we provide a brief introduction to Plantinga’s free-will defense and to the debate about God and evil in the analytic philosophy of religion.

Key words: problem of evil, free-will defense, possible worlds, analytic philosophy of religion.

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Publicado

2021-06-07

Cómo citar

PONTES, A. N.; SILVESTRE, R. S. God, evil and the metaphysics of freedom. Filosofia Unisinos / Unisinos Journal of Philosophy, São Leopoldo, v. 10, n. 3, p. 317–344, 2021. DOI: 10.4013/5031. Disponível em: https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/5031. Acesso em: 30 abr. 2025.