Demea And Philo Analysis

In the beginning of part 10, Demea and Philo start of by having a conversation claiming that in order for humans to find out the truth of religion, they must first have to see the misery and the wickedness of men. Demea replies to Philo by saying that all humans are convinced of the unhappy truth about religion. She explains that people all over the world are aware of the miseries of life, of the unhappiness, the corruption of nature, and the unsatisfactory enjoyment of pleasures, riches, and honors. On pages 59-60 Philo and Demea converse about the different evils that exist on people’s lives. Some of the evils that people face that they mention are war, hunger, anger, fear, anxiety, and terror. They also say that the evils of people are oppression, injustice, violence, war, calumny, treachery, and fraud.
At the bottom of page 60-62, Demea states that people are specimens of the Deity’s ills. Philo
he starts off by saying that he disagrees with him because in his point of view he believes that these assumptions they Demea is claiming cannot be neither proved to be right or wrong. Another thing he says is that having one assumption after another is not going to establish its reality. Cleanthes also gives his own response on page 64-65, by stating that he strongly believes that the only way of supporting the divine benevolent is to deny completely the misery and the evil of the man. He tells Demea that his response is not good because he exaggerates his representations and his view are for the most part not true. The inferences Demea makes are contrary to the facts and experiences. He addresses that misery and suffering is not as common as happiness. That health is more common than sickness and it is also the same case for pleasure and pain. The number of good things outnumbers the numbers of evil, misery, and sufferings. These are the memories of enjoyment are the ones that we keep in