PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Moral Evil, Natural Evil
15 May 2017
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God made a world filled with people who have free will. God mad what is good in the world. The littler bad there is came from us. How did evil come to the world if it is not god that sent it there: natural evil (death, disease, natural disasters) o moral evil (murder, hatred, inequality) If god is almighty and benevolent, why did god allow bas people to exist. Moral evil exists in relation to human freedom and. Comes possibility that some people may be bad. Logically impossible to both act freely and be prevented from harming others. Not even god can do something impossible logically. We should assume god gave us free will so we might sin. We being free are responsible for the sins we commit, not god. Why did god make it so hard for us to be good. The upshot of the argument, as presented by st. augustine:
