The problem of evil and suffering Flashcards
What are 2 types of evil?
Natural and Moral evil.
What is Natural evil?
Evil caused in other ways e.g. suffering caused by earthquakes.
What is Moral evil?
Evil caused by moral agents through choice,therefore human actions e.g. murder.
What do Monists believe about the nature of evil?
There is no evil, they say the universe is a single harmonious unity that is good and so evil is a mere illusion in our minds.
What do Zoroastrianism (dualist) believe about the nature of evil and suffering?
Assumes that the universe is a battlefield on which the principle of good and principle of evil fight for supremacy until the end of time.
What does Leibniz believe about the nature of evil and suffering?
The world is the best possible world, because God couldn’t create it any other way. Therefore evil is a mere illusion, it cannot have any reality in such a world.
What is the Story of Job?
TBA
What does the suffering servant analogy mean?
You don’t deserve to suffer, but you suffer and do not lose your faith.
The problem and suffering is what of Atheism?
The rock of atheism said by David hume
Why do Atheist believe the problem of evil and suffering is the rock of atheism?
If God is all the omni characteristics then God must want to abolish evil and suffering, suffering exist therefore God is not all the omni characteristics
What are A02 points for Why atheists believe the problem of evil and suffering is the rock of atheism?
1) Free will
Test of faith
Evil is an illusion (Buddists and Monists)
What are the 2 problems of evil?
Logical evil
Evidental evil
What does Logical evil mean?
The mere existence of evil is logically, incompatabile with the existence of an all loving all powerful god.
What does Evidential evil mean?
The amount of evil that exists is imcompatiable with the existence of an all loving, all powerful God.
Who coined the inconsistent triad?
Mackie
What is Mackie’s inconsistent triad?
There are 3 propositions composing the problem of evil
a God’s omnipotence, b God’s omnibenelovence and C God exists. If God is ominpotent then he is aware of the existing evil and suffering and so he knows how to put it to a stop. If he is omnibenevolent he would want to stop it.All these statements cannot be simultaneously true. The effects and scope of evil is so tangible that it seems non senscial to refuse it exists. To resolve the triad one of the statements must be removed.
What is a theodicy?
Is an attempt to answer the question of why a Good God permits the manifestation of evil.
What does Aquinas believe about the solution to evil and suffering?
He argues that God allows evil to exist as part of his greater plan of love. Therefore there is no logical contradiction in God being all the omni’s, as he has a reason.
What is A02 against Aquinas?
Hume and Mackie
What story can support Aquinas?
Story of Job
What Book did Augustine of Hippo write about his theodicy?
Book of confessions
Is the Augustinian theodicy soul deciding or making?
Soul deciding
What does Augustine describe evil as?
As a privation of goodness, just as blindness is a privation of sight ( loss or an absence of quality)
What is the Augustinian theodicy?
God is good and created this world perfectly good. It is not possible for God to be responsible for evil since evil is not a substance but a privation of Good. Evil didn’t come from God the free will of angels and humans who have chosen to turn away from God. ( Fall of man lead to Adam and eve breaking God’s commands. Evil in this Postlapsarian world and suffering come from the ioins of adam and is a punishment for human sin,