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Phil 347 midterm 2 problems of evil A+Solutions 2024.
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Phil 347 midterm 2 problems of evilA+Solutions 2024
Describe and evaluate the Epicurus argument from evil - ANS-1. If God exists, he is
good and powerful
2. If God is good, he wills to remove the evil
3. If God is powerful, he is able to remove evil
4. If God is willing and able to remove evil then he would have removed evil
5. But there is evil
6. Hence, ... God Does not exist.
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Evaluation: The conclusion is up to you: God is not powerful/not good or does not exist.
Name & evaluate the main Objections to E.'s argument from evil
(Augustine and Martin Luther) - ANS-Augustine's idea in Confessions: Epicurus
rejected the idea of afterlife living, where there is no evil for "good people".
According to Martin Luther, E.'s reasoning is logically correct but he thinks in the same
way as Augustine did: there is a life after life in which ppl will be punished for what they
did here (in our world).
Describe and Evaluate Hume's Argument from evil - ANS-1. Hume is arguing that if
there is an infinitely good, powerful, wise Being, then it is logically impossible (and just
impossible) that there is evil in the world.
2. Hume is arguing that the phrase "infinitely good, powerful, wise Being" doesn't make
sense if there is evil in the world.
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Evaluation: Hume is showing practically that for goodness there should be some
requirements met, one of them is -> willing to remove the evil, however, God is powerful
but still not removing evil. So the statement that God is good and powerful is not true.
Reason on Plato's question about God and Goodness - ANS-Plato raised the question
"Is the good "good' because God wills it, or does the God wills it because it is "good" ?".
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