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The argument from evil claims that the proposition 'God exists' is incompatible with the proposition 'Evil exists'. One response to the argument is to show that there is a third proposition which is consistent with the first, and whose conjunction with the first implies the second, thereby showing that the first and second propositions are compatible. I propose that this third proposition is 'Evil has positive value'.
This third proposition is established by the development of a meta-ethical theory, viz., the theory of positive value. The purpose of this paper is to develop this theory and apply it to the existence of evil.
The argument from evil claims that the proposition 'God exists 1' and the proposition 'Evil exists' are incompatible) One way to show that they are compatible is to find some third proposition which is consistent with the first, and whose conjunction with the first proposition implies the second) I propose 'Evil has positive value' as that third proposition. To show that evil has positive value we must first understand the theory of positive value and then apply that theory to the existence of evil.
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