Peter Van Inwagen

The Problem of Evil

The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in 2003

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Along the way he discusses a wide range of topics of interest to philosophers and theologians, such as: the concept of God; what might be meant by describing a philosophical argument as a failure; the distinction between versions of the argument from evil that depend on the vast amount of evil in the world and versions of the argument that depend on a particular evil, such as the Lisbon earthquake or the death of a fawn in a forest fire; the free-will defense; animal suffering; and the problem of the hiddenness of God.

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The vast amount of suffering in the world is often held as a particularly powerful reason to deny that God exists. Now, one of the world's most distinguished philosophers of religion presents his own position on the problem of evil. Highly accessible and sensitively argued, Peter van Inwagen's book argues that such reasoning does not hold: his conclusion is not that God exists, but that suffering cannot be shown to prove that He does not.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 147mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780199245604
• ISBN-10: 0199245606
• Artikelnr.: 20812813

Autorenporträt

Peter van Inwagen is John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Problem of Evil and the Argument from Evil
2: The Idea of God
3: Philosophical Failure
4: The Global Argument from Evil
5: The Global Argument Continued
6: The Local Argument from Evil
7: The Sufferings of Beasts
8: The Hiddenness of God

Rezensionen

Review from previous edition 'Van Inwagen must be the clearest writer and the best stylist in analytic philosophy, at least since the passing of W. V. Quine.' Ars Disputandi Journal, Daniel J. Hill