PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Felix Culpa, Omnipotence, Theism
15 May 2017
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Lomoarcpsd| 987298: we need evil to appreciate good what might seem bad now can turn good in the long run felix culpa = happy sin (cid:523)e. g. adam"s fall(cid:524, sin came with free choice, which is something good. Problem of evil is argument against traditional theist image of god: omnipotent, benevolent, omniscient. Good is defined as what is opposed to evil. Good thing eliminates evil as far as it can. Omnipotent = the thing that has no limits as to what it can do. Evil is an illusion and does not exist. Evil is the privation of the good, does not exist on its own right. Existence of evil is not logically connected to good (as small is to big) Big small = relative to each other. Good has to be more than a relative term. Could have an entire world of red without having green. Could not have an entire world of small without big.
