The problem of Evil
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- Created on: 12-08-19 07:56
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- The Problem of Evil
- Natural Evil
- Hurricanes, Natural Disasters, Floods
- Moral Evil
- Murder, Wars, Terrorism, Drugs, Lying
- Augustinian theodicy
- God created the world good but it went bad bc of original sin
- The evidential problem of evil
- William Rowe's examples of pointless suffering
- a fawn dies slowly and alone after a forest fire
- The evidential problem of evil is evidence which counts against the likelihood of God's existence
- William Rowe's examples of pointless suffering
- Defenses of God/ Theodices
- Free will defence
- Richard Swinburne - God can't prevent serious moral evil without restricting choice
- Søren Kierkegaard's parable of the king and the peasant girl
- Weaknesses
- love can never be expressed through pain (D.Z Phillips)
- determinists we don't have free will, it is all cause and effect
- John Hick says that humans that are always good would be no more free than robots
- love can never be expressed through pain (D.Z Phillips)
- John Hick's Soul making theodicy
- modern version of the Iranean Theodicy
- if you don't do it in this life, you get reincarnated and can try again
- your actions don't matter?
- explains why we can't know God
- we'd have to obey him - like driving with a policeman in the back seat
- Aquinas
- divine goodness is different to human goodness
- Free will defence
- The logical problem of evil
- There is evil in the world, therefore a perfectly good God does not exist
- "The Inconsistent Triad" - J.L. Mackie
- A perfectly good being would want to prevent evil - JL Mackie
- "God is Omnipotent, Evil Exists, God is all loving"
- Natural Evil
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