| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - First, some might argue that such qualities as benevolence -- and a fortiori the third order goodness which promotes benevolence -- have a merely derivative value, that they are not higher sorts of good, but merely means to good (1), that is, to happiness, so that it would be absurd for God to keep misery in existence in order to make possible the virtues of benevolence, heroism, etc.
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