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The Problem of Evil (Paperback)
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The Problem of Evil (Paperback)
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It is generally supposed that the fact that the world contains a
vast amount of suffering, much of it truly horrible suffering,
confronts those who believe in an all-powerful and benevolent
Creator with a serious problem: to explain why such a Creator would
permit this. Many reflective people are convinced that the problem,
the problem of evil, is insoluble. The reasons that underlie this
conviction can be formulated as a powerful argument for the
non-existence of God, the so-called argument from evil: If there
were a God, he would not permit the existence of vast amounts of
truly horrible suffering; since such suffering exists, there is no
God. Peter van Inwagen examines this argument, which he regards as
a paradigmatically philosophical argument. His conclusion is that
(like most philosophical arguments) it is a failure. He seeks to
demonstrate, not that God exists, but the fact that the world
contains a vast amount of suffering does not show that God does not
exist.
Along the way he discusses a wide range of topics of interest to
philosophers and theologians, such as: the concept of God; what
might be meant by describing a philosophical argument as a failure;
the distinction between versions of the argument from evil that
depend on the vast amount of evil in the world and versions of the
argument that depend on a particular evil, such as the Lisbon
earthquake or the death of a fawn in a forest fire; the free-will
defense; animal suffering; and the problem of the hiddenness of
God.
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