Philosophy: Key Names Flashcards
Irenaeus (POE)
The purpose of evil is to become children of god. Relies on ‘the Fall’. Speaks about imagio dei, paradise etc.
Augustine (POE)
Adam & Eve corrupted the natural world & human soul. Speaks about ‘the Fall’, angels, grace and ‘privato boni’
C.S. Lewis (POE)
God must lack goodness, or power, or both
Schleiermacher (POE)
A perfect world shouldn’t have wrongdoing unless God allowed it
Epicurus (POE)
‘Inconsistent triad’
Hick (POE)
‘Soul making’
Dawkins (POE)
Vast suffering in the animal kingdom
Mill (POE)
The world is cruel
Aquinas (POE)
It is only evil through human perspective
Aquinas (GA)
God can do anything within his nature
Descartes (GA)
God can do the logically impossible
Schleiermacher (GA)
God knows us as close friends do
Swinburne (GA)
God moves along the same timeline as we do
Boethius (GA)
God observes us while he is outside time himself
Anselm (GA)
God can be in the past, present and future at once - a ‘four dimensionalist approach’
