any answer with explanation is welcomed. plz really need the answer, as this is my HW for tommorow.
2006-09-28 08:14:23 · 6 answers · asked by bex 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
You can't solve evil. It just is. You can do your part to fight it, but you can't solve it because it's not something that you can control.
2006-09-28 08:16:43 · answer #1 · answered by Writer of Truth 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evil cannot be eliminated. This is because evil is relative. Should everything "evil" be eliminated, whatever the "worst" thing that is left over will then be considered evil (even if it is not by today's standards, like picking flowers). Values change over time and with different cultures, as well.
I fail to see what religion has to do with it.
2006-09-28 15:27:14 · answer #2 · answered by 006 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many philosophers who have tried to align their belief structures with christianity or other religious beliefs have had a very difficult and tumultuous time trying to explain evil through logical reasoning. For instance, during the Enlightenment, the German philosopher Leibniz coined the term and belief system of "philosophical optimism." According to this philosophy, we are in the best of all possible worlds (regardless of the evils caused by natural disaster or human immortality and evil-doing). This is because Christians believe that there is one god who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-good. According to these attributes, a god that is all-good would WANT to create the best of all possible worlds for his creation, he would be able to ENVISION it because he is all-knowing, and he would be able to CREATE it because he is all-powerful. Thus, philosophical optimism promoted accepting everything as is for being the best. However, many critics could not swallow this concept because it did not adequately explain why "bad things happened to good people,", etc. Writers who agreed with phil. optimism, such as Alexander Pope in his "Essay on Man" stated that God works in general rules, not partial rules, thus all small bad things that seem bad (such as hurricanes, people getting hit by cars, etc) work to some higher good that we cannot questions because we are not god, only man. There were many critics to this philosophy, including the French writer Voltaire, who satirically mocks philosophical optimism as an extremist belief system that promotes human complacency in a world that desparately needs human intervention. This is just one example....
2006-09-28 15:32:17 · answer #3 · answered by Bridget 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The basis for evil is selfishness. When we consider ourselves to be more important than anything else, we can commit evil acts. Its just that simple.
2006-09-28 15:23:07 · answer #4 · answered by Michael E 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
evil can exist because man has free will . . . we are free to chose any action God does not interfere with free will therefor evil exist
2006-09-28 15:29:33 · answer #5 · answered by Shintz62 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if there wasnt evil in the world then it would screw up the christians whole dogma..
if there isnt evil in the world, then what will god deliver you from??
if there isnt evil in the world, then would we need religion?
2006-09-28 15:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by lugar t axhandle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋