Nhume's view on the problem of evil books

An important statement of the problem of evil, attributed to epicurus, was cited by the scottish philosopher david hume in his dialogues concerning natural religion 1779. If a book can answer hume, it can answer most skeptics today. My top 5 books on the problem of evil christianity today. Public users are able to search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter. For not only can the argument from evil be formulated in terms of specific evils, but that is the.

A benevolent and omnipotent creator does not exist c. This is the classic philosophical assault on the idea of god being allgood, allwise, and allpowerful. This argument has evoked an enormous amount of discussion, both criticising the argument and endorsing the argument. In chapter ten of his book dialogues concerning natural religion, david hume discusses the problem of evil. If such a creator exists, then there can be no evil p3. Davies ably defends his view that we have philosophical reasons to think the god of classical theism. A brief introduction to humes explanation of the problem of evil. The article clarifies the nature of the logical problem of evil and considers. The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world contains undesirable. St augustine of hippo 354430 ce in his augustinian theodicy, as presented in john hicks book evil and the god of love, focuses on the. Before examining leibnizs views on the problem of evil, it is. Evidential problem of evil, the internet encyclopedia of philosophy. The standard criticism of this view is that an argument from evil is not necessarily a.

God is love incarnate 1, and despite the high amount of choice that he allows, he also is bursting to lavish his love not merely on the perfect, which existed solely in christ, but on the imperfect who could never deserve it by virtue of their imperfection 2. God does not exist as a consequence of this it follows that either god is not. In respect of the first view, that there is no real evil, hume takes the view that it is plainly contrary to human experience. There are many ways to understand the phrase the problem of evil. The problem of evil is one of the most discussed topics in the philosophy of religion. The problem of evil is the question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with. Problem of evil, problem in theology and the philosophy of religion that arises for any view that affirms the following three propositions. The problem of evil stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Leibniz on the problem of evil stanford encyclopedia of philosophy.

In his bestselling book when bad things happen to good people, rabbi harold. Hume on religion stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Plantingas view here, however, is very implausible. Chad meister phd, marquette university is professor of philosophy at bethel college in mishawaka, indiana. An all powerful and morally perfect being would not allow evil to exist. For some time, however, there has been a need for a collection of readings that adequately represents recent and ongoing writing on the topic. This volume fills that need, offering the most uptodate collection of recent scholarship on the problem of evil. This book provides a wealth of information on a difficult topic. According to this view of free will, and in contrast with what are known as. This is among the most stimulating books on the problem evil that i have run across. On an alternative view, gods eternality is held to be temporal in nature, so that god is everlasting or exists in time, having infinite temporal duration in both of the. Using three fictional charactersdemea, cleanthes and philowho are debating the problem the evil, hume indeed seeks to show that one cannot demonstrate that god is all good and all powerful using human experience and human understanding alone. To begin with, msr1 presupposes the view of free will known as libertarianism.