Assignment Papers-Explain the distinction between moral and natural (or nonmoral) evil.
· Explain the distinction between moral and natural (or nonmoral) evil.
· Explain the distinction between the logical form of the problem and the evidential form.
· Explain the difference between a theodicy and a defense.
· What are 2 inadequate ways of resolving the problem?
· What is Mackie’s form of the logical problem of evil?
· Explain the “greater good” response to Mackie’s argument.
· Explain the “logically impossible” response to the criticism of the “greater good” argument.
· How does the existence of certain “second-order goods” require the possibility of evil?
· What is the soul-making theodicy and what are some problems with it?
· How does the free-will theodicy support the soul-making theodicy?
