Peter van Inwagen The Problem of Evil (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Problem of EvilCondition: NewRelease Date: 04/17/2008Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 0199543976EAN: 9780199543977ISBN: 9780199543977Publisher: Oxford University PressDescription: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 220mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 15mmAuthor: Peter van InwagenGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityItem Weight: 261gRelease Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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