The Problem of Evil: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St Andrews in 2003 - Couverture rigide

Van Inwagen, Peter

 
9780199245604: The Problem of Evil: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St Andrews in 2003
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ISBN 10 : 0199245606 ISBN 13 : 9780199245604
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199245606
ISBN 13 
9780199245604
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
198
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