Philosophy / Unit 3 Philosophy 0121 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Free Will Defense
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The idea
The free will defense: genuine freedom is valuable, and free creatures can choose evil—so an all-good God's world may contain the evil we cause.
In practice
Plantinga's version is widely credited with answering the logical problem: coexistence needs only to be possible.
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