The Problem Of Evil

Question 1

Natural evil

Answer 1

Volcanoes

Tsunami

Question 2

Moral evil

Answer 2

Murder

Rape

Question 3

Omnibenevolent

Answer 3

God is all loving

Question 4

Omnipotent

Answer 4

God is all powerful

Question 5

Omniscience

Answer 5

God is all knowing

Question 6

Mackie

Answer 6

Atheist
We are both determined and have free will
Inconsistent trade
Omnipotent-evil exists- omnibenevolent

Question 7

The brothers of karamazov

Answer 7

Brother 1- if the ultimate good means evil, count me out

Religion is a method of control according to Nietzche

Question 8

Augustine soul deciding theory

Answer 8

Bible shows that god is wholly good and that according to genesis , the world was created free from suffering, defect and evil

Believes world was perfect and damaged by humans

Question 9

3 main points of Augustine theodicy

Answer 9

God gave humans free will
Everyone is evil of sin
Adam and Eve introduced moral and natural evil

Question 10

3 main criticisms of Augustine theodicy

Answer 10

God enabled the world to go wrong or it was never perfect in the 1st place
If perfection was drummed into us, why would we choose evil
-evil allows them to have resumption from Jesus
Is it Reasonable to say suffering isn’t a real thing when there is evil privation in the world

Question 11

Augustine view on problem of evil

Answer 11

Evil just Absence of good
Comes from free will

“Evil has no positive nature but the loss of good has received the name evil”

Question 12

Iraneus soul making theodicy

Answer 12

Idea that god allowed evil to happen as it is necessary to let their souls develop
Evil is instrumental

Question 13

Main points of iraneus theodicy

Answer 13

Grow into likeness of god
Created in his image
Develop from experience with evil so that we know wrong and right
Value of our virtues is proportional to severity of our suffering

Question 14

Criticism of iraneus

Answer 14

People don’t always develop from suffering
-rape loss
Suffering only way to develop moral growth?
-Could be encouraged without the need for suffering
Universal salvation fair?
-if you all go to heaven what is motivation to be moral anyway

Question 15

Hick soul making

Answer 15

Without the freedom of choice humanity couldn’t develop=counter functional hypothesis
We would have the goodness of robots if the world was created perfect
Has to be a epistemic distance

Question 16

Hick criticism

Answer 16

Do the ends justify the means?

In universal solution fair?

Question 17

Swinburne soul making theodicy

Answer 17

Seven stage argument stating that natural evil allows human to understand evil. Evil became extreme as more people became evil

Question 18

Seven stage argument steps

Answer 18

1) gain knowledge through experience
2) consequences follow from actions
3) only know bad consequences will happen if have prior knowledge
4) know this if others have experienced it before
5) for any evil act, must be first instance
6) murder gained knowledge from experiencing/hearing someone talk about action of killing
7) natural evils to hell us gain knowledge and correct moral choices

Question 19

Arthur showcross

Support for Swinburne

Answer 19

Killed 12 women and 2 children

Abused as a child

Question 20

Dz Phillips

Answer 20

Doesn’t like theodicies
Instrumentalist is poor excuse
Human life is more that a number it cannot be cost benefit analysed

Question 21

Insufficient reason for eve ik according to DZ Phillips

Answer 21

Evils develops character
Evil is logically necessary 
Evil acts to spur us to goodness
Things are not as bad as they seem
Suffering is never more that we can beat
All this will be redeemed after death