RE: Good and Evil - Sources of Authority
- Created by: ellielouise
- Created on: 03-05-21 16:46
View mindmap
- Sources of Authority
- St Augustine of Hippo
- 1 - evil helps us appreciate good
- if evil and suffering weren't in the world then we wouldn't be able to appreciate good in the same way
- 2 - evil is not a thing
- there is no such thing as evil, only an absence of good, referred to as a privation
- 3 - evil makes us better
- sometimes we reach a greater outcome through suffering, so suffering may be good for us
- 1 - evil helps us appreciate good
- Irenaeus
- we were made with the potential to be perfect (in God's image and likeness)
- we have to grow towards perfection and undergoing suffering helps that
- suffering is part of God's plan as it perfects the soul
- Jewish views
- Jews do not believe in the concept of 'Original Sin' or that guilt of moral weakness is inherited from Adam and Eve
- all humans are born facing temptation and the ability to make decisions about this
- there are two inclinations 'yetzer ha tov' (good) and 'yetzer ha ra' (evil)
- it is important to struggle against the inclination to do evil as God sees all
- the Ten Days of Awe there is an opportunity to atone for any evil
- Jews see evil and suffering as a consequence of humanity's wrong choices
- John Hick
- God deliberately made an imperfect world so that we could learn and grow
- God values our freedom
- we are made with the potential to grow in God's likeness; we come to perfection through suffering
- David Hume
- the inconsistent triad:
- John Mackie
- 1 - we can recognise good without ever witnessing evil
- 2 - sometimes suffering makes people bitter and resentful instead of better
- 3 - evil and suffering is too high a price to pay for free will
- argues directly against St Augustine
- Thomas Aquinas
- Natural Law is God-given
- certain things are always good
- to preserve life
- to reproduce
- to educate / nurture children
- to live in ordered society
- to worship God
- Marilyn McCord Adams
- we shouldn't ask why but instead trust God
- a child having heart surgery doesn't understand why but trusts her mother to want the best for us
- St Augustine of Hippo
- evil exists
- God is omnipotent
- God is omnibenevolent
- God is omnipotent
Similar Religious Studies resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made