A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge
Author
Roupe, Zachary Thomas
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.
Date
2021-05-28
Citation:
APA:
Roupe, Zachary Thomas.
(May 2021).
A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge
(Honors Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship.
(http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218.)
MLA:
Roupe, Zachary Thomas.
A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge.
Honors Thesis. East Carolina University,
May 2021. The Scholarship.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218.
September 26, 2023.
Chicago:
Roupe, Zachary Thomas,
“A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge”
(Honors Thesis., East Carolina University,
May 2021).
AMA:
Roupe, Zachary Thomas.
A Pragmatic Attempt to Undermine the Evil-God Challenge
[Honors Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University;
May 2021.
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Publisher
East Carolina University