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Recasting Analytic Philosophy on the Problem of Evil

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In his recent book, A Frightening Love: Recasting the Problem of Evil, Andrew Gleeson challenges a certain conception of justification assumed in mainstream analytic philosophy and argues that analytic philosophy is ill-suited to deal with the most pressing, existential, form of the problem of evil. In this article I examine some aspects of that challenge.

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  • Gleeson, A. (2012). A frightening love: Recasting the problem of evil. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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  1. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, McMullin Building, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    Joe Mintoff

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Mintoff, J. Recasting Analytic Philosophy on the Problem of Evil. SOPHIA 52, 51–54 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0355-3

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