Argument
Theodicy
Overview
philosophical and/or theological theory which attempts to explain how a good God could create a world containing so much evil
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Thus has God been induced to permit evil. 22. But someone will say to me: why speak you to us of 'permitting'? Is it not God that doeth the evil and that willeth it?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
States what Theodicy is; the book is titled for Theodicy.
We are further told, God said, 'Behold Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil.' Knowledge is now spoken of as divine, and not, as before, as something wrong and forbidden. Such words contain a confutation of the idle talk that philosophy pertains only to the finitude of the mind. Philosophy is knowledge, and it is through knowledge that man first realises his original vocation, to be the image of God…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
States what Theodicy is; the author is tied to Theodicy in the knowledge graph.
There must, therefore, be one principle of being from which all things in whatever way existing have their being, whether they are invisible and spiritual, or visible and corporeal. But the devil is called the god of this world, not as having created it, but because worldlings serve him, of whom also the Apostle says, speaking in the same sense, "Whose god is their belly" (Phil. 3:19).
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Theodicy is; the author is tied to Theodicy in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Theodicy
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Thomas Carlyle
- Heraclitus
- John Hick
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Victor Cousin
- Simone Weil
- David Ray Griffin
- Maimonides
- Augustine of Hippo
- Joseph de Maistre
- Francisco J. Ayala
- Philip K. Dick
- J. L. Mackie
- Antonio Rosmini
- Alvin Plantinga
- William Hasker
- Hatata
- Pasquale Galluppi
- Benny Lévy
Related ideas
- Epicurus
- The Holocaust
- Jesus
- Avicenna
- Adam and Eve
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Goddess
- Hinduism
- Hasidic Judaism
- John Hick
- Immanuel Kant
- Al-Ghazali
- Ancient Greek
- Wahhabism
- John Locke
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Chabad
- Rumi
- Mu'tazilism
- Just war theory
- Ash'arism
- Metaethics
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.