Descriptive
One evil too many
On the axis: The problem of evil · the mass of suffering
Even without a strict contradiction, does the mass of apparently pointless suffering, a fawn dying alone in a forest fire, not make a good God who watches over all highly improbable?
Philosophers' positions
Major
0
0
10
90
Justification
In the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Philo revives Epicurus's old questions: faced with the world's mass of suffering, divine goodness and omnipotence cannot be inferred from nature. Evil is the reef on which natural theology runs aground.
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, X-XI
Anchors: Hume · Rowe