Natural Law and the Paradox of Evil

Whether moral decisions are evaluated by universal standards or by those of local traditions, moral conflicts are always contextual. Kant’s categorical imperative is absolutely universalistic, but its test cases are concrete and particular; one should, for example, return a deposit even where the depositor alone was aware of the arrangement and has since died. In the same way, when I now raise the question of how we can deal with Evil, I do so in a specific context. The moral conflicts ...