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Philosophy 102:  Introduction to Philosophical Inquiry
Ethics and Philosophical Ethics

ETHICS TEST CONTENTS

John Hick, "No, God Can Allow Some Evil"

1. __________According to Hick, the most powerful objection to the belief in God is the problem of evil.


2. __________The Christian Science solution to the problem of evil is to say that evil is just an illusion of the human mind.


3. __________Some philosophers, the Personalists and John Stuart Mill, for example, believe that God is finite and does the best that He can. Even so, He cannot stop all evil.

 

4. __________Augustine believed that basically the universe is bad, and we must try to bring it back to God by doing good.

 

5. __________Nonmoral evil is defined by Hick as wickedness, and moral evil is defined by Hick as suffering or pain.


6. __________Theodicy is the attempt to account for why God created a universe with no evil in it.


7. __________Hick's solution to the problem of evil is to point out that the world is a place of soul-making, and such a place could not exist in a hedonistic paradise.

 

8. __________Hick points out that a perfect world is not possible for people to live in because present ethical concepts would have no meaning in it.


9. __________The basic answer to the problem of evil as given by Hick is called a negative theodicy.


10. __________Hick believes that there is a future good (after we die) that justifies all of the evil in the world.

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