Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Divine Retribution, Ontological Argument, Cosmological Argument

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

Document Summary

Refuting an argument for p is not the same as arguing that not-p. God exists, but the ontological argument doesn"t prove it! is perfectly reasonable: the state of play. We have seen four arguments in favour of the existence of god and we have considered some weakness in each of them. These features of god, the so called divine attributes seem to be inconsistent with the existence of evil in the world. The argument from evil consists in showing that these divine attributes are incompatible with the existence of evil in the world: epicurus" version of the argument from evil. Either god wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. If an all-powerful and perfectly good god exists, then evil does not.