Phil 347 MT3 Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers

Phil 347 MT3 Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers what are the 4 possible relationships of God to evil and how do they accord with God's character (4) - God is willing and able to get rid of evil (this one accords with the character of God) - God is willing and unable to get rid of evil (makes God feeble) - God is unwilling and able to get rid of evil (makes God lacking in goodness) - God is unwilling and unable to get rid of evil (makes God envious AND feeble) what is the gut conclusion to the premises "God is willing and able to remove evil" + "there is evil"? - God does not exert providence lay out Epicurus's argument from evil? (7) 0) God is a powerful, good being 1) If God is powerful he can remove evil 2) If God is good, he wills to remove evil 3) But evil exists 4) God can and wills to remove evil 5) Hence evil doesn't exist - 5 contradicts 3 (this argument does not conclude against an intelligence / first cause) Define "can" and "wills" (2) - Can = is able to do X - Wills = wants to do X What assumptions are necessary for Epicurus's argument from evil and are they true? - God achieves what God wills / wishes (not true: God wishes that I not do bad things, yet I do bad things) - God does RIGHT NOW whatever God wills RIGHT NOW - It makes sense to ascribe these things to God, an infinite being what are some "solutions" to the Epicurean argument from evil (4) - "God is not good" - "God is not powerful" - "There is no evil" - "God is good but it doesn't follow that God removes evil right now" list traditional responses to the Epicurean argument from evil (2) - it is wrong to believe that God wishes to remove evil from amongst humans (stoics view / pre christianity / greek, God is unconcerned with human affairs) - traditional christian responses (St. Augustine, Aquinas, Martin Luther) - Islamic response outline St. Augustine's response to Epicurean argument from evil - we don't know that God does not remove evil (e.g. after death) outline Aquinas's response to Epicurean argument from evil - if two contraries be infinite, one would be destroyed (therefore evil should not exist) - quotes St. Augustine, good can be produced from evil outline Martin Luther's response to Epicurean argument from evil (3)