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evil + suffering Flashcards

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What are examples of natural evil?

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Tsunamis, wild fires, diseases

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What are examples of moral evil?

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Murder, arson, genocide

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What’s the logical problem of evil?

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  • God is omnipotent
  • Got is omnibenevolent
  • Evil exists
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What’s the first solution to denying 1 of the 3 statements?

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Denying God’s omnipotence (Process Theology)

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What’s the second solution to denying 1 of the 3 statements?

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Denying God’s omnibenevolence

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What’s the third solution to denying 1 of the 3 statements?

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Denying that evil exists

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What is the free will defence?

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Argues that God has to allow evil in order to preserve free will
If God controlled evil, there’d be no freedom

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What is John Hick’s eschatological solution?

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In the end everyone reaches God’s Kingdom; evil is a necessary part of the process to become fit for heaven

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What’s the evidential problem of evil?

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There are known facts about evil that are evidence against God’s existence
- Evil is overwhelmingly in quantity + quality
- Evil is pointless; serves no purpose

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What’s evidence of evil thats overwhelming in quantity + quality?

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Mass genocides

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What is an example of pointless, purposeless evil? Who gave this example?

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Rowe’s example of a fawn suffering a slow, painful death in a forest; it dies alone wo anyones knowledge

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What is the evidential problem + God’s omniscience?

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God is omnipotent; God is omnibenevolent; God is omniscient; Evil exists

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What would an omniscient being know?

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They would know, at the point of creating the universe that both overwhelming + pointless evils would occur

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Which scholar goes with first, second, third + fourth order good/evil?

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John Mackie

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What are first order good/evils?

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The experience in life of happiness/misery + pleasure/pain
e.g. eating cake/breaking a limb

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What are second order good/evils?

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We can respond to suffering w compassion/cruelty

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What does second order good do?

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Maximise first order good + minimise first order evil

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What does second order evil do?

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Maximise first order evil + minimise first order good

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What is third order good?

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Free will allows ppl to choose bet 2 things
Pain + suffering helps us develop capacity for sympathy to morally grow

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What is fourth order good?

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God creates humans w free will, which teaches us to be morally responsible

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What is Mackie’s rejection of the Free Will Defence?

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It’s logically possible for a person to make free, good choices
God could’ve created humans so they would only make good, free choices
But God didn’t

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What does Mackie’s rejection of the FWD mean?

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Either God lacks power
Or God isn’t loving enough to stop evil
Either way the FWD fails
Concl: God doesn’t exist

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Why did Mackie set out his example of the FWD?

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In order to disprove it

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What are Plantinga’s 3 possible worlds?

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  • The world as it is; evil + suffering w ‘morally sig free will’ no causal det. from God
  • The world wo ‘morally sig free will’ but God’s causal det. makes ppl choose good so no evil
  • Both ‘morally sig. free will’ + God’s causal set. to make ppl choose good
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What is Plantinga’s deduction of his 3 possible worlds?

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  • The 1st is logically possible
  • The 2nd is logically possible BUT would make humans robots
  • The 3rd is logically possible; gen. free will is incompatible w causal det. so Mackie’s arg fails
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What is the response to Natural evil in terms of Plantinga’s defence?

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  • Tied up w punishment for the Fall
  • Logically possible that God created or allowed natural evil bc of human sin in Eden
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What’s a strength of the FWD from Plantinga? What’s a counter to this?

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Shows that FWD is logically possible in relation to both types of evil + Mackie’s suggestion isn’t
But this doesn’t mean its true

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What’s a strength of the FWD in terms of what is addresses?

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FWD addresses the issue of natural evil bc nature has to be free in order to follow its laws of operation

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What’s a strength of the FWD?

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A world w genuine free will has more value than one wo it where humans would be robots

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What does Augustine’s say about evil?

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  • God created all good things
  • Evil isn’t good
  • Therefore god didn’t create evil; so evil is not a thing
  • Evil is just the absence of good
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What does Augustine say evil comes from?

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All evil comes from humans, starting w Adam + Eve
This is the reason for infant baptism

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What does Augustine say happened when Adam + Eve disobeyed God?

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They disrupted the harmony so even the natural world is corrupt

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What is the name of Augustine’s theodicy?

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Soul-deciding theodicy

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Why is it called the soul-deciding theodicy?

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If humans decide to do good then their soul will be saved

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What is the name of Hick’s theodicy?

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Soul-making theodicy

36
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What does Hick say about what happened in Genesis 1 + what this means?

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Humans are made in imago dei
We have God’s image, but not likeness (omnibenevolence, kindness etc)

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What does Hick say about what God gave us?

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God gave us teaching + scriptures; but God was also so nice that he gave us evil so we can use scriptures to develop

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What does Hick say about free will?

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Free will is necessary; we learn from mistakes + God must maintain an epistemic distance

39
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What does Hick say about moral + natural evil?

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Moral evil is a result of free will
Natural evil is ‘God given opportunities’ to develop

40
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Who is the scholar for Process Theology?

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Griffin

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What do process theologians believe about God?

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God isn’t omnipotent or transcendent + God changes
God is ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’ - we should treat God similar to humans

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What do process theologians say about the Bible?

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The bible wasn’t the word of God but people expressing beliefs about him
E.g. one of the Gospels was written nearly 200 years after Jesus’ resurrection
Its not factual

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What due Process Theologians say about God’s creation? What bible quote is used as evidence?

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God didn’t create the universe out of nothing; but he rearranged preexisting material
Genesis 1:1 “earth was without form”

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What may weakness 1 of Hicks Soul Making theodicy be?

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Why’s there sm awful evil (evidential prob); evil doesn’t have to be so extensive to teach humans good

45
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What example from Mackie supports weakness 1 on Hicks Soul Making theodicy?

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To teach a child the colour yellow, he only needs to show a small amount of yellow
To teach compassion, God only needs to make them experience a little bit

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What is weakness 2 of Hick’s soul making theodicy?

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There’s no doctrinal evidence to support Hick’s belief that everyone gets to heaven
E.g. it doesn’t seem fair that Hitler would get to the same afterlife as Anne Frank

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What are 2 more weaknesses of Hick’s soul making theodicy?

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Why should people who don’t care/believe in heaven have to suffer?
If we all reach God’s kingdom what’s the point in the journey?

48
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What are 2 strengths of Hick’s soul making theodicy?

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Fits w current scientific thinking on evolution
Epistemic distance justifies all kinds of evil; the means are justified if the end is heaven

49
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What are 2 strengths of Hick’s process theodicy?

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  • Fits w current scientific knowledge
  • Concept of God as a ‘fellow sufferer’ bc the entire universes sensory experience is ‘in’ him means those who suffer are assured that God understands
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What are 2 weaknesses of Hick’s process theodicy?

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  • Some theists claim we can’t be sure of the correct translation of Genesis 1:1

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