PHILOS 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Omnipotence, Quasi, Moral Evil
9 Jan 2016
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Why do we have evil? (epicurus) if god wants to eliminate bad things but cannot, he is weak. If he can but doesn"t want to, then he is spiteful. If he cannot and doesn"t want to, he is weak and spiteful. If god is perfect, then unless god created himself, anything which god creates will be imperfect. Types of evil: moral evil: the bad things that humans cause, natural evil: the bad things which do not involve human agency, evidential arguments (hume) Existence of evil shows god doesn"t exist. Provide reason to think that god doesn"t exist: consistency arguments (mackie) Says that evil and god cannot exist. Hume: 1711 1776: dialogs on natural religion: Demea: theist who approaches issue of religious. September 17th; philosophy 1e03 orthodoxy conception of god: existence of evil is consistent with theistic, present evil is rectified in another region (heaven) and at a future point in time.
