PHIL 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Blaise Pascal, Gie, Fairy

• School: Marist College
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 101
• Professor: Professor Berger

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Problem of evil: begins with the main ingredient in most of our conceptions of god: god is good, there is evil in the world, so the argument goes. Denial of god: every theistic philosopher who has ever written has felt obliged to respond to the problem of evil in one way or another. Two kinds of evil: non-moral evil (cid:862)a(cid:272)ts of god(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:374)atural disasters(cid:895) Philosopher joh(cid:374) hi(cid:272)k sa(cid:455)s these are (cid:862)soul-(cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g(cid:863) They make our lives less predictable and more tragic but make us better people: moral evil the holocaust. Denial of evil: one answer to the problem of evil is to say there is no evil or suffering. Pretending that nothing is wrong: people think that war is evil. Everyone killed or injured in a war somehow deserved it: many suffer because of their own errors. Does (cid:374)ot refle(cid:272)t god"s good(cid:374)ess: justice whether human or divine, means punishing the person who deserves it, not someone else.