Sentence examples for evil problem from inspiring English sources

This creed also addresses the ever-present problem of theodicy (see also evil, problem of).

Perhaps the most difficult problem connected with the notion of providence is the existence of evil: humankind has perennially been faced with the question of how to reconcile the idea of a provident God or gods with the evident existence of evil in the world (see theodicy; evil, problem of).

The positive function of this representation of God lies in the fact that, without diminishing either the power or the justice of the total divinity, it enables people to find an answer for the vexing question of theodicy the problem of affirming divine justice and goodness in the face of physical and moral evil (see also evil, problem of).

Although Hegel optimistically proclaimed that history demonstrated "progress in the consciousness of freedom," his doctrine of the "cunning of reason"— according to which the aims of the World Spirit are willy-nilly realized behind the backs of individual actors appeared to justify misery and injustice in the world as part of a larger plan visible only to Hegel himself (see evil, problem of).

These take in the people as a whole, in contrast to Kings; on the other hand, their interest in theodicy (the problem of reconciling the presumed goodness of God with the existence of evil in the world) and their polemical tendency to exaggerate and generalize what they deem evil must be taken into consideration before accepting their statements as history per se (see also evil, problem of).

Another strategy is to try to solve both the new evil demon problem and the clairvoyance problem at one fell swoop by opting for a variant of process reliabilism.

But is evil the problem, or God?

Reliabilists don't typically claim that there is no new evil demon problem (Cohen 1984).

(A different promising approach to the New Evil Demon Problem, the "normality approach" is presented in section 5.2 below).

Comesaña (2002) uses this distinction to provide a solution to the new evil demon problem cast in the framework of two-dimensional semantics (Stalnaker 1999).

To vote for the "lesser" of two evils, the problem is, you still end up with evil.