WHEN IS EVIL? - San Diego State University
... The traditional problem of evil in philosophy centers on the divide between the theological/metaphysical and the secular. Christian theology tries to reconcile evil (the suffering of human kind) with a singular, all-loving, all-powerful God. How could an omnibenevolent God allow his children to suff ...
... The traditional problem of evil in philosophy centers on the divide between the theological/metaphysical and the secular. Christian theology tries to reconcile evil (the suffering of human kind) with a singular, all-loving, all-powerful God. How could an omnibenevolent God allow his children to suff ...
The Missing Formal Proof of Humanity`s Radical Evil in Kant`s
... quently or invariablyrequires this self-centered stiffening of his supposedly moral resolve. Finally, in depravity or corruption, the individual's descent into evil is complete. Here the maxim is not good at all, since the corrupt person has made a perverse choice to reverse the appropriate priority ...
... quently or invariablyrequires this self-centered stiffening of his supposedly moral resolve. Finally, in depravity or corruption, the individual's descent into evil is complete. Here the maxim is not good at all, since the corrupt person has made a perverse choice to reverse the appropriate priority ...
Keith Crome`s `Descartes` Evil Demon`
... figure, or something even simpler if that can be imagined?'15 To such an argument it might be objected that God, whose attributes include benevolence and goodness in the highest degree as well as omnipotence, would not deceive anyone in this way nor allow anyone to be so deceived. In response Descar ...
... figure, or something even simpler if that can be imagined?'15 To such an argument it might be objected that God, whose attributes include benevolence and goodness in the highest degree as well as omnipotence, would not deceive anyone in this way nor allow anyone to be so deceived. In response Descar ...
A Post-Secular Faith? Connolly on Pluralism and Evil
... vilification of certain practices as well as other doctrines that present religion, and particularly, Christianity differently, that is, in ways that reduce the demand for salvation by an omnipotent God. Whilst the question of evil is not the sole focus of Connolly’s enquiries, nevertheless, the nat ...
... vilification of certain practices as well as other doctrines that present religion, and particularly, Christianity differently, that is, in ways that reduce the demand for salvation by an omnipotent God. Whilst the question of evil is not the sole focus of Connolly’s enquiries, nevertheless, the nat ...
Evil and Human Nature.
... Of course, Augustine, too, stresses the moral significance of the pleasure he took in his wickedness. He is careful, however, to indicate that, while the pleasure he took in doing wrong was an important feature of his Evil, this pleasure was not his primary motivation for doing wrong. Instead what h ...
... Of course, Augustine, too, stresses the moral significance of the pleasure he took in his wickedness. He is careful, however, to indicate that, while the pleasure he took in doing wrong was an important feature of his Evil, this pleasure was not his primary motivation for doing wrong. Instead what h ...
Is Diabolical Action Possible? - Inter
... requires having only a desire to do the right thing where this is read de dicto; a morally decent or virtuous person might have that desire in addition to many other intrinsic desires that ground non-derivative concerns about kindness or justice or love. Regardless, my current point is not that mora ...
... requires having only a desire to do the right thing where this is read de dicto; a morally decent or virtuous person might have that desire in addition to many other intrinsic desires that ground non-derivative concerns about kindness or justice or love. Regardless, my current point is not that mora ...
The Logical Argument is not Bankrupt
... sophisticated rebuttal does not succeed. The sort of free-will which he needs in order to make the existence of evil compatible with the existence of God is itself incompatible with divine foreknowledge, and so the Logical Argument presents itself anew. Before getting to the meat of the matter, howe ...
... sophisticated rebuttal does not succeed. The sort of free-will which he needs in order to make the existence of evil compatible with the existence of God is itself incompatible with divine foreknowledge, and so the Logical Argument presents itself anew. Before getting to the meat of the matter, howe ...
The argument from evil
... God allows evil for the sake of our free will. It is impossible for us to have free will and always act rightly; so it is impossible for God to create a world in which we have free will and there is no evil. So, God creates a world with evil because it is the only way to make a world which contains ...
... God allows evil for the sake of our free will. It is impossible for us to have free will and always act rightly; so it is impossible for God to create a world in which we have free will and there is no evil. So, God creates a world with evil because it is the only way to make a world which contains ...
Symposium III and Lysis
... better at the lower kinds of love, for one truly understands what it is that is lovable about persons, laws, mathematics, etc. ...
... better at the lower kinds of love, for one truly understands what it is that is lovable about persons, laws, mathematics, etc. ...
God Must Be Evil - Sarah`s ePortfolio
... The problem of evil is one which has plagued philosophers since the fourth century BC. How can God and Evil both exist in the world? To be able to understand this question we must first gain knowledge of what evil is. Evil is often defined as something that is immoral or categorically bad, but can a ...
... The problem of evil is one which has plagued philosophers since the fourth century BC. How can God and Evil both exist in the world? To be able to understand this question we must first gain knowledge of what evil is. Evil is often defined as something that is immoral or categorically bad, but can a ...
Mackie and Rowe
... traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thC)rouglhlycriticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God's existence oo:ssltJle. And he can still retain all that is essential to his position, by that God' ...
... traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thC)rouglhlycriticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes, this criticism. He can admit that no rational proof of God's existence oo:ssltJle. And he can still retain all that is essential to his position, by that God' ...
Evil and Omnipotence J. L. Mackie The problem of evil, according to
... But insofar as one tries to solve the problem of evil by stressing the importance or value of second order good (in counterbalancing the existence of first order evil), one falls prey to what Mackie calls a fatal objection—the existence of second order evil (like indifference). If one tries to argue ...
... But insofar as one tries to solve the problem of evil by stressing the importance or value of second order good (in counterbalancing the existence of first order evil), one falls prey to what Mackie calls a fatal objection—the existence of second order evil (like indifference). If one tries to argue ...
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... opposed to virtue, and thus their whole explanation must of necessity be different and opposite. As the discourses and debates on the problem of evil continue—whether it is personal, subjective, objective, necessary for perfection, a part of creation, or God’s will—ideas regarding evil are changing ...
... opposed to virtue, and thus their whole explanation must of necessity be different and opposite. As the discourses and debates on the problem of evil continue—whether it is personal, subjective, objective, necessary for perfection, a part of creation, or God’s will—ideas regarding evil are changing ...
The Problem of Evil
... Augustine argued that fallen angels had chosen to cause earthquakes, diseases, etc. This allows free will to explain all aspects of evil. ...
... Augustine argued that fallen angels had chosen to cause earthquakes, diseases, etc. This allows free will to explain all aspects of evil. ...