quick revision b4 tests Flashcards
1
Q
Plantinga?
A
Free will defence (One of many)
has a formal argument urgh.
- Aquinas
- Weak Theodicy
- Curly Smith
- Demons and the devil.
2
Q
responses to Plantinga?
A
J.L. Mackie:
Logical world without sin. Anthony Flew:
the kind of person you are affects what you choose.
3
Q
Hick?
A
- Soul making argument
- based on Aristotle’s beliefs.
- God and epistemic distance
- Also a
- free will defence because of compatibilism
- natural evil is there to test us.
- Idea taken from a poem by Keats.
4
Q
criticisms of hick?
A
- Problems with the evidential problem of evil.
- What about animal suffering?
- What about terrible evils?
