Dialogue on good evil and the existence of god summary
In response to the existence of this God, a variety of responses and perspectives arise that allow the listener to really explore the nature of His existence, if He does exist at all.
This is the God most familiar to Western society, and the God to whom the most consideration is brought, to determine whether or not it is plausible that He should exist. The all knowing, all-powerful, infinitely merciful and benevolent God that exists outside of space and time, as we know Him today, is the focus of the later conversation during this episode. in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779): Is God willing to. The man and woman who are noble and good I call happy, but the evil and base I. There is a point in every philosophy at which the. Sinnott-Armstrong doubts that any of these are real reasons. Problem of evil, the problem of reconciling the existence of evil with the. He defends his belief in gods such as the sun and the moon and in other. Greece took a hundred years to find out who the garden-god Epicurus really was. Michael Stoeber, Evil and the Mystics' God, Great Britain: Macmillan, 1992. Lastly, John mentions the defense that occurs through revelation. On these terms, human existence (the other-than-God or God's grace) means. Another approach is through personal experience, where someone claims to simply have a feeling about God. However, these statements contradict each other, so all three cannot be true. The argument begins by saying that God is both all-powerful and wholly good, and that evil exists in the world. The second thought is that given the way the world is, it could not have been the result of an accident, and this defines the argument from design. Dialogue of Good, Evil, and the Existence of God by John Perry In John Perrys book Dialogue on Good, Evil and the Existence of God, he used three characters in the dialogue in order to clarify the positions of the three characters (Weirob, Miller, and Cohen), the arguments they provide in support their positions and the 'end state' of their discussion. The Problem of Evil is an argument concerning the existence of God and why God cannot exist because of the presence of evil in the world. The first is the a priori ontological defense of God, which is completely logic based. John identifies a number of defenses of the existence of God. The guest on the show, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, introduces the idea that there are necessary components needed to establish a God of the traditional sort, which restrict what God can be like. Evidential arguments from evil against the existence of God often take the. The belief in God.is it something that is reasonable, something that can be defended by proof and evidence? Or is it something that must be accepted solely on faith, irreducible to logic? John notes that there are many different conceptions of God, some of which are more believable than others. And because of this, we have a prima facie good epistemic reason to reject.