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Titre :
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The Problem of Evil. The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St Andrew in 2003
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Auteurs :
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Peter Van Inwagen, Auteur
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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Oxford : Clarendon press Oxford, 2008
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-19-954397-7
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Format :
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xiv-183 p. / couv. ill. en coul / 22 cm
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Note générale :
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Outline Contents (P. IX), Notes (PP. 152-176), Works Cited (PP. 177-180), (Index PP. 181-183).
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Index. décimale :
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Phénomènes paranormaux (130) (Parapsychologie, religion, croyance, anthropologie)
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Catégories :
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Philosophie et Psychologie
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Mots-clés:
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God Proof, Good, Evil, Religious aspects, Theology, Christianity, Theodicy, Philosophy, failure, suffering, Beast, decreasing value, belief,...
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Résumé :
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It is generally supposed 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, t-he problem of evil, is insoluble. The reasons that underlie this conviction can be formulated as powerful argument for 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 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.
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Note de contenu :
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1. The Problem of Evil znd the Argument from Evil. 2. The Idea of God. 3. Philosophical Failure. 4. The Global Argument from Evil. 5. The Global Argument Continued. 6. The Local Argument from Evil. 7. The Sufferings of Beasts. 8. The Hiddenness of God
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