Evil and Suffering
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- Evil and Suffering
- Introduction
- Suffering exists with knowledge
- Dostoevesky - The Brothers Karamazov
- The problem of suffering focuses more on the experience of evil and so addresses the problem on a more personal level.
- The problem of suffering
- For some religions it's not a problem - Buddhism/Hinduism
- Christians define God in a certain way
- The problem of suffering/evil is the contradiction with the attributes of God and the addition of suffering/evil
- The solution to this problem is called Theodicy - the justification for calling God good in the face of evil
- St Augustine's Free Will Defence
- Free agents - human and angel are given free will
- To be given free will, they must choose to go towards God.
- If God made it in our nature to go towards God - we wouldn't really be choosing
- SUMMUM BONUM - highest good
- Peter Vardy 'created like a robot'
- Apparent suffering is humans exercising this free will and getting it wrong
- Adam made a mistake - he was exercising his free will
- Hugo St Victor - 'It is really good that evil exists because bad things make good things better'
- The Irenaen Theodicy
- Man was created imperfect
- Mankind was created in the image of God but not the likeness of him
- God gave us the freedom of choice that enables us to be morale agents
- Kant ' We cannot be blamed for doing wrong if we are forced to do it, and neither are we admirable for doing good if we had no other option'
- Man is immature and imperfect and prone to making mistakes
- What we perceive as suffering is God creating an environment where we can grow and develop
- God does not put every wrong right -Kant 'Value of soul making'
- Swinburne - you cannot have a second order good without a first order evil
- Introduction
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