Providence and Evil: The Stanton Lectures 1971-2Examines the question: if the world is planned in all its detail by a mind, can that mind be called good, given the world's actual nature? |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
able to override logic by Descartes and by many | 7 |
Omnipotence | 13 |
God can bring about everything that God can bring | 14 |
happens may be false if the thing in question already | 17 |
opportunity and so on do not apply to God But pro | 23 |
man We use such as propositions in ordinary life quite | 24 |
actual state of affairs given e g his promises and what | 31 |
that it always was going to happen By reason of some | 48 |
going to happen and human action may have made | 50 |
not see the future he knows it by controlling it | 56 |
responsible for it like a man watching a murder from | 62 |
C S Lewiss attempts | 68 |
infer that God is frustrated when an acorn does | 73 |
not because of | 79 |
Original | 85 |
made himself need his creatures and became liable | 37 |
The simple rule about Gods knowledge is given by | 40 |
Common terms and phrases
absolute omnipotence accept action actual almighty animals appears Aquinas argued argument ascribed believe bring cause certainly chance Christ Christian clear clearly comes confusion consider course creatures damned defend deny Descartes described destroy distinction Divine doctrine everything evil example exist explain fact faith Fall false feat follows future give given God's going happen Heaven Hell Hobbes hold hope human idea impossible infliction involve knowledge laws less live logically consistent logically possible man's matter McTaggart means merely mind natural necessary never objection omnipotence Original pain past perhaps philosopher position prevented problem promise proposition question reason regard reject revelation seems sense simply sins so-and-so sort speak story suffering teaching theory things thought tion tradition true truth turn understand wicked wish wrong
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Providence and Evil: The Stanton Lectures 1971-2 Stanton lectures, ISSN 1971-1972 |
| Author | Peter Geach |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | CUP Archive, 1977 |
| ISBN | 0521214777, 9780521214773 |
| Length | 153 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Political Religion / General |
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