MACKIE, J. L.

Evil and Omnipotence.

Edinburgh, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1955. 8vo. In contemporary red stiff cardboards. In "Mind", Vol. LXIV. Fine and clean. Pp. 200-12. [Entire volume: VII, (1), 576, (7) pp.].

First printing of Mackie famous paper on the philosophical statement of the problem of evil.

For centuries, atheists argued that an all-loving, all-powerful God is logically incompatible with the existence of evil, and thus the existence of evil provided a knock-down argument against God. The standard form of this argument was provided by J.L. Mackie in the present paper.

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