PHIL 2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Omnipotence, Natural Evil, Relativism
30 Aug 2018
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Today will be a review of the problem of divine commands and problem of evil. Can you get a moral act from a command? (from previous class) The problem the saints saw on the set of divine commands is that: thou shall not kill", doesn"t give you an explanation, worried that there is no agency here. So it"s important to understand why the divine commands are bad, rather than just following it because it"s a command. Why do bad things happen to good people". Its not a problem if you"re a secularist: cant explain it; it"s a random contingency. Bad things do happen to people ~ natural disasters (natural evil) vs. man made (social evil) There are people who devote their life to their religion but still in a world created by god where all. Natural evil: cancer or tsunamis, why would an all good being create this in a world, environmental disasters, pg.
