Good and Evil
Subject Areas : Philosophy
1 - ندارد
Keywords: Divine Grace, Divine Justice, Non-Existential Evil, Accidental Evil, and Essential Evil,
Abstract :
Theists believe that the Universe is governed by a single being whorules according to absolute wisdom, grace, power and justice. Hiswisdom and grace implies that He creates a universe with the bestpossible order and most goods and perfection. A universe which is, asHe Himself, perfect and pure good. At the first glance, however, wefind the universe lacking goodness, i. e. a universe endowed withVices and evils. These Vices may be regarded as either metaphysical,natural, or moral.These questions and the like put the Divine attributes such asHis Omniscience & Omnipotent, Tawhid (Oneness) Divine Justice,His Grace, divine absolute Wisdom and Power under doubt. Theauthor is attempting to propose solutions posed by Islamicphilosophers in this regard. Different approaches taken by somecontemporary philosophers such as J.L. McGee and the answeroffered by the contemporary philosopher of religion, Alvin Plantinga,will be further studied.