PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theodicy, Natural Evil
12 Jan 2016
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The civilization in the star was innocent; there was no evidence of evil. In the past, civilizations have been destroyed but there have been survivors. God has no need to justify his opinion. It"s blasphemy to make god justify his actions. Yet o god, there were so many stars you could have used. The problem of prima facie (first glance) gratuitous (unnecessary) evil. Their sun was a sign: there is evil in the world, god is all good, all powerful, all knowing. Therefore there should be no pain at all! John hick in the possibility of evil : a christian" solution to the problem. St. augustine= everything created by god is good; evil is just a perversion of what. A miss use of freedom of will, will account for evil. No theodicy can tell you why god allowed the holocaust, etc. 2 evils need to be distinguished from eachother: God could have made humans as innocent automata (robots)
