Ishmaam Khan

In this essay I will examine and critique Justin Mooney's How to Solve the Problem of Evil: A Deontological Strategy. Mooney offers what at first appears to be a promising approach by employing two strategies — the restriction strategy and the prerogative strategy — to explain how God might allow evil. I'll take each in turn and argue that their reliance on incompatibilist free will and the claim that suffering is indispensable for moral development leave them wanting. I will also suggest that a...