The world today is a combination‚ a blend of the two extremes fleshed out by the four authors we studied. St. Thomas and Locke display a world viewed through rose colored glasses. As much as people today want to believe that everyone exhibits behavior that Locke and St. Thomas consider good if they are left to their own devices with only laws to keep them in place‚ it is an unrealistic view of the world as we know it. In order for the world to run effectively‚ people have adopted a system closer
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Explain how Thomas Aquinas tries to prove Gods Existence (30) St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was a Catholic Italian Monk who was regarded to be one of the most important philosophers of the medieval period. Aquinas had adopted the works of Aristotle’s analysis of physical objects‚ his view of place‚ time and motion‚ his proof of the prime mover and his cosmology. He tried to connect the Christian faith together with the Philosophy of Aristotle’s work in his ’Summa Theologica’. Aquinas used 5 arguments
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sought to be the epitome of happiness and greatest achievement. Important Christian philosophers had views that varied from law‚ social division‚ and unjust racism which influenced the religion and the way people thought about faith substantially. Thomas Aquinas‚ Augustine‚ and Frederick Douglass work to integrate equality and righteousness into the faith by directly and indirectly explaining
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JOHN HICK’S THE PROBLEM OF EVIL I. John Hick discusses in his essay The Problem of Evil‚ the objections to the belief in the existence of God is the presence of evil in the world. He begins by posing the traditional challenge to theism in the form of the dilemma: That if God was perfectly loving‚ he must wish to abolish evil‚ and being all powerful‚ is able to perfectly do so as he will its. He then proceeds to present some views regarding this issue‚ giving insights from three point of views
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God and the Problem of Evil by B.C. Johnson discusses what is called the problem of evil in philosophy. He specifically talks about the evidential problem of evil. The evidential problem of evil is the argument that if God is an all-powerful and all-knowing being than he cannot be all-good or omnibenevolent. How can an all-good God exist and allow evil things to happen to humankind? God supposedly has the power to stop evil from occurring‚ yet he does not. In the article by B.C. Johnson ponders this
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On Free Choice of the will: St. Augustine’s View on Evil This paper examines St. Augustine’s view on evil. St. Augustine believed that God made a perfect world‚ but that God’s creatures turned away from God of their own free will and that is how evil originated in the world. Augustine assumes that evil cannot be properly said to exist at all‚ he argues that the evil‚ together with that suffering which is created as punishment for sin‚ originates in the free nature of the will of all creatures. According
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able to make such a perfect world. Lastly‚ there is the Cosmological argument‚ which Thomas Aquinas used to explain not only the existence of mankind‚ but the existence of our creator. Aquinas used five different Cosmological arguments or theories to justify his beliefs. His five arguments on the existence of God were proven by motion‚ Efficient Causation‚ Necessity‚ Gradation‚ and Governance. Although Aquinas had many arguments for why God exists‚ he also had many questions for people to ponder
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is often discussed and debated is “does the existence of evil and suffering in our world prove there is no God?” This question raises attention of many people and is thought about worldwide. God is seen as almighty‚ powerful and worshiped‚ but this raises the question of why would God put our world throughout so much suffrage and heartache? God loves each and every person on earth‚ which causes a lot of confusion when it comes to suffering. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen
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The Problem of Evil To present the topic of “the problem with evil‚” without acknowledging there is a God can be confusing. I think one of the best questions that you could ask is‚ why does God allow evil being a perfect and loving God (Elwell‚ pg 413 There are different types of evil that are allowed in this world. The first is moral evil‚ which began in the garden of Eden when Eve ate the fruit off the tree and deliberately disobeyed God in an act of sin and evil (Gen. 3)(Elwell‚ pg 412)
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The Problem of Evil is one of the most renowned arguments that provides the objection to the existence of God. According to this argument‚ if God exists and is all-powerful‚ all-knowing‚ and all-good‚ then there would be no evil in the world. However‚ the world is full of instances of evil and suffering‚ consequently indicating that an all-powerful‚ all-knowing‚ and all-good God does not exist. Within the context of this argument‚ evil can be defined as “ a state of affairs that creates pain‚ suffering
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