Essays on Problem of Evil

I am writing on John Hick’s piece entitled There Is a Reason Why God Allows Evil. In the selection Hick explains a theodicy, a justification of God’s goodness because of evil, the soul-making view of life in this defense of God’s way in the face of evil. The dilemma of the problem of evil is,…

Leibniz’s Problem of Evil is a consequential treatise that has risen from his philosophical discussions on the problem of freedom, sin and evil. This would be our concern since the problem of evil was derived from the previous premises of the existence of God and its hold on the concepts of freedom and sin. It…

The question of creation has baffled countless generations throughout history. Wars have been fought to advance religious convictions often at remarkable cost of human life. Great empires have ascended and descended in the name of God and enlightenment, but no one to this day was able to uphold the existence of God beyond reasonable doubt….

Humans are born with the innate ability to define what is considered a sin and what is considered a deed. By this, it is necessitated upon by us,the humans, to find reason and rhyme for our sins, and reward ourselves because of our virtues. We avoid sins typically, except in some cases where our own…

“All our lives are a combination of what we are born into–over which we have no choice- and what we choose (Davis 2016 pg. 20).”In society today we are taught what’s is right and what is wrong from a young age. In our history we are shown and told who we should look up to…

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness” (Immanuel Kant). In Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road, a father and his son, both of whose names are unstated, struggle to survive the results of an unspecified apocalyptic event; inevitably, virtually all life has disappeared and…

Humans come in all forms of good and evil. But Albert fish was all evil with an image of a good person. Albert Fish was a serial killer who delightfully enjoyed consuming the human flesh, or as we know a cannibal. Albert was undeniably alike to the monster Grendel, a fictional character from a poem…

Across Europe between the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries emerged witch hunts, killing numerous faultless people and plundering the power of women, changing the panorama of women all at once. Economic deprivation, devout competitiveness, and problematic diplomacy were suitable when accusing your neighbor was a thing. Both Steven Pinker and Arthur Miller make a determined altercation…

Introduction The problem of evil has been addressed by philosophers for centuries. The problem stems from the concept of an omnipotent, omniscient and perfectly good and just God; that if such a God exists, then evil should not exist. The very fact that there are too many evils that have existed since the dawn of…