Hamartiology: The Problem of Evil (Theodicy) – Your neighbor Sam greets you outside as you return home from church one Sunday. After the usual chitchat, he confides in you that he has been troubled with the news, recent reports of natural catastrophes, wars, disease, and so on. He asks if you could help him make sense of the presence of evil in the world - if indeed God exists. Keeping this scenario in mind, answer the following questions in your essay: • What is the problem of evil? • Define
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projects and programs, either pending or implemented, are free from it. If corruption is the problem then we should get rid of it, instead of making a substantially reasonable and timely proposition to pay for corruption’s own blunder and our acquiesced inability to remedy it. Also, the RH Bill does not mandate nor oblige nor compel nor command everybody to absolutely adhere to it should it be passed into law. Those who are against it are free not to avail for any of its provision and it would not
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and ethically. Eventhough, we have the ability to exercise our free will in all manner of ways and make choices, do we always have free will ? I believe freedom to be the ability to make your own choices, which are not influenced by anyone else’s opinions or decisions, when faced with either a difficult or easy decision. Some philosophers believe that our ability to make free choices is an illusion which means that we are not free at all. Others state that there is something else beyond our understanding
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evil and natural evil. There is a clear distinction between the two of them. Natural evil is based around disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis as well as people suffering. Where as moral evil is more based around the actions of people and their free will. For instance this could include murder and traits such as dishonesty and greed. However some of these in actual fact do link together and the separation between them is not quite as evident as originally thought. For example diseases which
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Each of these things needs to be done to have a good organization. Departmentalization is needed to do each group jobs efficiently. It can and does cause problems between workers. Such as when another group of workers is supposed to do a job and fail to do so, it then may fall onto another set of workers to complete. Where I work we are required to do housekeeping, v and our own job s of taking care of our patients. This causes problems because when we don’t have time to do something such as the
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can be best summarized as “no excuses!” He famously said harshly, “We always get the war we deserve.” In another way, we always get the life we deserve. Against all such excuses, Sartre argued that we are never determined, that we are “absolutely free.” This is not to argue in the absurd sense that we can do anything like lift mountains, but it is to say that we always have a choice, and that we always do make a choice, even when they are not always self-evident. It is not the freedom to accomplish
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you have (B) you will have (A), without exception. 8. Know how Aristotle viewed happiness. “Man can only achieve happiness by using all his abilities and capabilities.” He said there were 3 forms of happiness, Pleasure and enjoyment, being a free and responsible citizen, and living the life of a thinker and philosopher. p. 126 “Hellenism” – p. 137 9. Know the differences between Cynics, Stoics, and Epicureans. Cynics- true happiness not found in external advantages like political power
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to stop the pursuit and did not. He decided to take the law into his own hands; Trayvon was killed. Zimmerman was arrested after killing Trayvon that night; he was taken into for questioning but was set free a few hours later. Since he was crying self-defense does that justify that he was free 6 weeks after the murder? That isn’t fair that someone can take the law into their own hands when they are told to stay where they are. After the case became one of the most talked about situation for the
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whom we assume that has free will, also gave us the same free will, then humans would just comply to his knowledge of the future thus humans’ free will contradicts an omniscient god or an all knowing god and from this, we can say that god is dead. C. Thesis Statement Therefore, the question of god is meaningless because humans have free will so their decisions are independent of god, and that he creates or promotes conflict. II. Body A. Argument 1: Humans have free will so their decisions
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