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The Possibility of Evil" is a 1965 short story by Shirley Jackson. Published on December 18, 1965, in the Saturday Evening Post, [1] a few months after her death, it won the 1966 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best mystery short story. [2] It has since been reprinted in the collections Just an Ordinary Day (1996) and Dark Tales (2016).
Numerous variations of theodicy have been proposed which all maintain that, while evil exists, God is either not responsible for creating evil, or he is not guilty for creating evil. Typically, the Irenaean theodicy asserts that the world is the best of all possible worlds because it allows humans to fully develop.
According to Sharma, "Madhva's tripartite classification of souls makes it unnecessary to answer the problem of evil." [104] According to David Buchta, this does not address the problem of evil because the omnipotent God "could change the system, but chooses not to" and thus sustains the evil in the world. [103]
A key point of evolutionary theodicy is that the Fall is part of a pre-scientific worldview. Evolutionary theodicists also have other basic presuppositions that Rodrigues says legitimize evil, imply God’s creation does not have a purpose apart from eschatology (life after the end), and make it difficult to sustain classic theological views.
Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.
Further, the free will argument asserts that it would be logically inconsistent for God to prevent evil by coercion because then human will would no longer be free. [116] [117] The key assumption underlying the free-will defense is that a world containing creatures who are significantly free is innately more valuable than one containing no free ...
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The absence of good (Latin: privatio boni), also known as the privation theory of evil, [1] is a theological and philosophical doctrine that evil, unlike good, is insubstantial, so that thinking of it as an entity is misleading. Instead, evil is rather the absence, or lack ("privation"), of good.