Evil and suffering

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Moral evil
suffering caused by human actions
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Natural evil
suffering caused by natural world phenomena
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Physical evil
suffering which is brought about via the physical world
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beneficient
perform good acts; helping people
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evil
that which produces suffering; the moral opposite of good
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inconsistent triad
this idea proposes that God cannot be both omnibenevolent and omniscient and allow evil to exist
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privation
deprivation or absence of something; term used in Augustinian theodicy
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Augustinian theodicy
argument based on ideas that evil is caused by created beings, not God, and that God is justified in permitting evil to occur
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theodicy
argument justifying God; term used in relation to the existence of evil and suffering
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suffering
the experience, or showing the effects, of something which is evil or bad
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animal suffering
part of natural world, lives and moves but, in this context, refers to non-humans
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immense suffering
huge magnitude of scale; can also refer to intensity
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innocent suffering
pure and guilt free
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eschatological verification
meaning that all things will be made clear or 'verified' in the end of times or 'eschaton'. It can also mean that a person will find ou tthe truth of the matter after death.
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epistemic distance
a distance of knowledge. Phrase used by John Hick in his development of Irenaeus' theodicy to refer to the distanc eof knowledge between God and humans.
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John Hick
modern day philosopher of religion. Champion of religious pluralism; also developed Irenaeus' Theodicy
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Irenaeus
Early church Father (2nd century) Developed a theodicy which put part of the blame on the existence of evil and suffering onto God. He saw evil and suffering as necessary in the development of humans towards moral perfection.
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Irenaean theodicy
Argument based on ideas that humans were not created perfect and remain imperfect and that evil is necessary to permit human freddom of choice
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Phillips
20th century philosopher who articulated (contra Irenaeus) that it could never be morally justifiable to hurt someone in order to help them
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free will defence
attempt to reconcile the reality of evil with the existence of God by arguing for the necessity of evil in order to enable full and genuine human freedom
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problem of evil
the philosophical notion that evil shouldn't exisy if God possesses the characteristics traditionally ascribed to him
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Schleiermacher
prominent German theologian and philosopher of the 18th and 19th centuries. Responsible for producing an effective critique against Augustinian theodicy
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seminal presence
Augustinian reference to the idea that, biologically, the whole human race was present 'within Adam's loins'
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Swinburne
modern day philosopher, influential in his work on the existence of God, religious experience and miracles
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free will
Conmcept that a rational being is able to completely freely determine their own futures or destinies through true freedom in making decisions, both ordinary and moral
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Augustine
Early Church Father, Augustine of Hippo, converted to Christianity relatively late in life. great intellectual force responsible for the formalisation of what is now accepted as Christian orthodoxy in terms of belief and ethics. Famous worksinclude C
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soul-making
concept within the traditions of the Irenaean theodicy that describes how suffering helps humans develop morally (from God's 'image' to his 'likeness'
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suffering caused by natural world phenomena

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Natural evil

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suffering which is brought about via the physical world

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perform good acts; helping people

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that which produces suffering; the moral opposite of good

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