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Argument From Evil - Term Papers

Argument From Evil

Brandon Nesenoff
Wednesday 10:35AM
TA: Arturo
PHI 107 First Paper

Argument from Evil (Mackie)
P | 1. If a thing/being is omnipotent then there are no limits on what it can do.
P | 2. Good is opposed to evil in such a way that a good thing eliminates evil as much as it can.
1,2| 3. A good omnipotent thing/being eliminates evil completely.
P | 4.The world contains evil (both suffering and moral evil). .
3,4| 5. There is no good omnipotent being (i.e. no being who is both good and omnipotent.)
P | 6. According to traditional theism, God is both good and omnipotent.
5,6| 7. There is no God of the sort traditional theism claims, i.e. God in the sense of a good omnipotent ...

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world, God must exist. The Argument from Evil states that the presence of specific sorts of bad in the world make it impossible for God to exist. (Lecture) The Argument from Evil is a deductive argument drawn from aposteriori premises. This means the conclusion is drawn through the logical following of a set of premises; these premises appeal to information obtained through experience. There is an alleged inconsistency regarding three points which is present at the core of this argument. The propositions are; God is omnipotent, God is perfectly good, and the world contains Evil. If any two of these points are true, the third must be false (Lecture).
The argument begins by stating that an omnipotent being has no restrictions on what it is capable of. The next point exclaims that Good destroys evil to the highest extent that it can. From these two propositions we can deduce that a being who is both omnipotent and good will completely remove all evil. Good is traditionally believed ...

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Added: 2/27/2014 05:33:00 PM
Submitted By: Bness
Category: Philosophy
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