PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Natural Evil, Western Philosophy, Moral Evil

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1200
• Professor: David Matheson

Document Summary

According to the 19th century philosopher arthur schopenhauer, there is no transcendent meaning of life to which we can appeal to ground a meaning of life. ); and a personal but somewhat wicked/ignorant/weak transcendent being might be either not all-good(if somewhat wicked) or be all-good (if somewhat ignorant or weak). Essentially, because of what"s come to be known as the problem of evil : The problem of evil: problem for those who do believe in an all-good, all powerful, all knowing, personal being, of reconciling the supposed existence of such a being with the prevalence of wide spread evil in the world. But there is, obviously, widespread evil in the world. There have been many attempts to solve this problem of evil in the history of. One of the most (in)famous is that of the 17th century philosopher and mathematician, gottfried wilhelm. He thinks that, despite the claims of people like.