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Describe Augustine's Theodicy for why there is evil in the world.

Augustine's theodicy argues that God created the world and it was perfect, without the existence of evil or suffering. Augustine defined evil as the privation of goodness, just as blindness is a privation of...
AB
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critically assess the philosophical problems raised by the belief that God is omniscient

The belief that God is omniscient in the strong sense as having unlimited knowledge of all time, raises many philosophical problems including the problem of evil, human autonomy and the nature of God's other...
AS
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Please could you explain the Ontological argument with Kant's counterargument?

Anselm's Ontological argument is a bit different to the other main arguments for God's existence (as well as a bit more complicated), being A Priori, rather than A Posteriori. Here, Anselm tries to prove God...
JW
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By definition, a miracle is impossible.” Discuss.

In order to judge whether a miracle is possible, one must first decide on a definition of the concept of a miracle, which has been widely debated amongst a range of philosophers over many years. St Augustine...
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Outline the problem of evil and one possible response to it.

The problem of evil is one that is often thought to come in two forms - the logical and the evidential - both of which arrived at due to the Christian devotion to the idea of a God of all perfections (i.e. a...
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