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Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

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The Importance of a God in Optimism

I'm saying that a condition of the possibility of an optimistic worldview being true is that there exists a superhuman power. So it's a pragmatic argument. It's a bit like Kant's moral argument. The moral life can be worth living only if God exists and there's immortality.

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