Hi everyone it’s Aimee here from the blog I Think Therefore I Teach welcome to your next pop of Philosophy this five minute summary is going to go over the topic of the problem of
Evil so let’s get my timer started I do like this topic so let’s see if I can do it here we go start okay the easiest way to deal with this topic is to break into three main sections the first section is the
Logical aspects of the problem of evil so this is questions how does evil actually exist where do we get the problem from and this problem comes about and is summarized by Epicurus and later termed the inconsistent triad by
J. L Mackie and the inconsistent triad is the idea of if God is all-powerful then he just must not want to stop evil therefore he’s not all loving if he’s all loving and he just can’t stop evil then he can’t be all powerful but if God
Is all powerful and all loving then why does evil exist and these form what is known as the inconsistent triad because they do not go together they are inconsistent and so this is known as the logical aspects because logically
How can God be all loving and all-powerful and evil exist the next part of this topic is the theodicies these are presented by St. Augustine and John Hick St. Augustine presented the theodicy theodicy meaning justification of God with evil in the world he presents the idea that rebellious
Angels and Adam and Eve are what corrupted and destroyed God’s perfect paradise so God created everything in absolute perfect and said do not touch the apple he laid that one rule down so that free will stood and said do not touch from that tree
And what Adam and Eve did was Eve took the apple gave it to Adam and they ate the apple this then corrupted and destroyed the perfect harmony because they broke that covenant they broke that promise with God and so that moral evil of turning their backs on God
And breaking a promise brought in that natural evil so natural evil is a result of the moral evil Adam and Eve did so why is it around today you ask it’s because we are seminally present in Adam and Eve we are
All the bloodline of Adam and Eve so we therefore deserve punishment for what our ancestors did so natural evil is a punishment and a result of moral evil and therefore God is not responsible but is not responsible to stop and do something
For something that he did not create or bring in the other area of Augustine is this idea of a privation evil is a privation it is where something is lacking goodness is lacking so evil is a privation or an absence of good you cannot create an
Absence you can’t create a lack of something it is where a lack of goodness is which is what happens when you bring your moral evil you turn your back on God bringing in other evils into the world we then have John Hick which is a new modern take on
Irenaeus’s theodicy and what John Hick gives in Irenaean light is that we are made in the image of God and move into the likeness and when we’re made in the image of God based around that quote in Genesis we are made in the image of God
But we are spiritually immature we’re like rebellious children we are trying to find our way and we therefore make a lot of mistakes but we’re trying through being tested and challenged to move into that likeness that relationship and that oneness with God
And so what happens is when we make mistakes it’s because like Adam and Eve they were not mature enough to make that decision and so what happens is we are we are punished and we are tested and so evil is a test to
Help us learn how we should behave and for Augustine this world is soul deciding in that what happens to the fate of your soul heaven or hell is designed in this world whereas for John Hick through Irenaeus
This idea that this is the veil of soul making our souls are made developed nurtured in this world through those trials and those tests and John Hick was very different from Irenaeus as John Hick believed everybody eventually would go to heaven
Some through purgatory Irenaeus did not believe this he believed that hell was still necessary for people that turned their backs completely on God and in Against Heresies he presents the idea of the potter and the clay
God is the potter we are the clay if you turn your back on God you let yourself go dry to God then and and you do not let God’s hands mould you and guide you through these tests
Then and then you you’ll end up in hell for not accepting God’s help that he gives you how am I doing for time one more minute left so a few extra names that you could bring into this topic you have a few
Supporters of free will free will is the issue if we didn’t have free will then we wouldn’t be able to do moral evils bringing in natural evil but we have free will because free will is important and why is free will important John Hick says
That we have to be free to love God love cannot be forced if God just said no you are all going to just love me follow me and I’m going to give you no free will why would God want that no with free
Will though comes that chance of disobeying and turning away from him and so we have to be free to love God and this is presented by John Vardy’s peasant girl idea story and where he talks about the peasant girl
Falls in love with no sorry the king falls in over the peasant girl he can force her to marry him but not to love him similarly we have people like Swinburne that says if God was constantly intervening in our lives
It’d like an over protective parent every time we fall over he picks us up and therefore again free will would be diminished because we think oh well God does exist because he constantly comes and helps us out somebody against free will though is Dostoyevsky
That is time I’ll just finish that point off a critic against free will is Dostoyevsky he’s the one that argues that free will comes at too high a price he would rather not have it and so he presents the story of a servant boy that was playing with
The master of the houses dogs he’s running around with them and one of the prize hunting dogs breaks its leg and therefore it is no good to the master of the house and so is punishment to the boy he takes the boy’s
Clothes off and makes him run out into the field while his parents watch the child being mauled to death by the other dogs now whether this story has a truth or is based on something that he heard or something that actually was true from his day
And we don’t really know but as far as the story itself he’s saying that these horrible horrible horrible things happen in the world what we do to one another because we have free will and you just rather not have it it comes at too high a price
When we see how people treat one another and don’t forget in this question as well to always bring in what’s happening in the world give recent specific examples and and this is known as the evidential part so always give examples of things that happen in the
World that could show the problems that we have with evil right folks thank you very much for watching if you’ve liked this give me a little like and hopefully you do find it useful and don’t forget to subscribe as well so that you always keep up to date
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