Response to Hasker
The issue between my view and Hasker's concerns a certain principle that he takes to be true, but I hold to be false. The principle in question asserts that failing to do better than one did is a defect only if doing the best one can is possible for one to do. I claim that this principle is false because if an all-knowing, all-powerful being were confronted with an unending series of increasingly better creatable worlds and deliberately chose to create the least good world, that being would thereby show itself to be something less than a supremely perfect world-creator. In fact, I argue that if a supremely perfect world-creator were to exist and create a world, it would have to be a world than which there is no better creatable world.
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1969 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 6-7
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1982 ◽
Vol 40
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pp. 680-681
1974 ◽
Vol 32
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pp. 450-451
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1970 ◽
Vol 28
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pp. 358-359
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1984 ◽
Vol 42
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pp. 376-379
1981 ◽
Vol 39
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pp. 38-39
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1968 ◽
Vol 26
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pp. 304-305
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