PHIL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Richard Swinburne, Natural Evil, Moral Evil

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 201
• Professor: C. Kenneth Waters

Document Summary

A god who gave agents only such limited responsibilities for their fellows would not have given much. God would have reserved for himself the all-important choice of the kind of world, it was to be, while simply allowing humans the minor choice of filling in the details. An argument from evil claims that because evil exists, either. God does not exist or does not have all three of those properties: the problem of evil is often formulated in two forms: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. It is an attempt to justify the ways of god to humans. It is as attempt to explain the coexistence of god and evil. For the christians the idea of the hebrew deity was not going to be acceptable to those whom they hoped to convert: those who had come under the influence of the. Greek manner of thought, those other than the hebrews.