HUMA 1160 Lecture Notes - Perfect Power, Natural Evil

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1160
• Professor: Stanley Tweyman

Document Summary

Is natural evil (bad things that happen thru nature) compatible with benevolence of. Is god good while evil still exists: part 10, everyone agrees evil exists, the issue is, can god"s benevolence and evil co-exists, god that is being discussed is the designer of the world, recall: (infinite power . ~(best of all possible worlds) b/c there would be no evil: therefore: ~(infinite power. Benevolence: cleanthes still says god is benevolent but does not have infinite power, there is an argument within the argument all in part 10, part 10, pages 152 156: talk of evil in the world, pg. 156, bottom paragraph: why the design of the world does not show a benevolent designer: pg. 157, second last paragraph: cleanthes"s challenge: pg. It"s not a challenge to philo, even though it sounds like it. It"s a challenge to himself will see the evil as rectified: pg.