CORE1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Pointless, Moral Evil, Actual Infinity
Philosophy
Tutorial Ten
The Problem of Evil
- Central to the essay
o Define the problem of evil
o Why is it central to the essay?
▪ What the claim is about
o How does it help the Atheist/Theist argument?
▪ Compensated and uncompensated comes in
• Why would a good God let evil happen?
Argument:
- If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, and
therefore can eliminate evil, how can these exist at the same time.
Atheist
- A God an’t exist eause there is eil in the orld
- The absent God
- Reinfores that God doesn’t exist eause eil exists
Theist
- Idea of compensated Evil
- Free will
- Genesis in the fall
- THEODISY
o Arguments that attempt to reconcile the argument of God alongside the
presence of evil
o There is eil in the orld eause of…
Presentation One – Ontological Argument
Presentation Two – Cosmological Argument
- Associated with Monotheism
o Religion with one God
o Within these religions God is perceived as all powerful, ever present, knows
all things, and is all good
- Belongs to a broader class of arguments
o Things are emotion
o Things change
o The universe exists
The existence of God as a cause in the universe
- Discussed by the philosophers Aristotle and Plato
o Aristotle = Frist cause must be the creator of the universe
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Document Summary
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