PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Theodicy, Ontological Argument, Omnipotence
16 Sep 2018
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All in the best possible world, out of our understanding. Something you can get without the bad thing. More good than the bad thing that you have to endure in order to get it. You can"t get the good thing without the bad. Something that gets you off the hook for the bad thing. Better that the evil existed than if it hadn"t existed. Can"t form a soul without extreme evil. Have to come up with a justifying reason for every situation. Theodicy: purports to tell why there is evil. Free-will theodicy: god allows evil because free-will is super good. Defense: for all we know, free-will is so great that it outweighs the evil. The people who do the suffering get the good. The good is given to the sufferers. Compensating good is divine gratitude, face-to-face intimacy with god. Evidence is affected by the tools you use to gather and evaluate it.
