Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2021
Abstract
In this paper, I suggest that James Sterba's recent restatement of the logical problem of evil fails since Sterba's "Evil Prevention Requirements" need not apply in a world under full human sovereignty (a concept inspired by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola). The Mirandolian theodicy can both accommodate and complement Dostoyevsky's views on the possibilities of the defeat of evil, predicated against the background of the conception of "collective selfhood", overlooked by Sterba despite "featuring" on the cover of his book, no doubt due to his libertarian-individualistic assumptions about human agency and human flourishing.