Sentences with phrase «facie evil»

For if we knew that God did so, then we would know that every prima facie evil was simply allowed by God to produce some more - than - compensatory good.

If the term «apparent evil» applied simply to that prima facie evil which, from an ultimate perspective, contributes to a better future, then the term would be so broad as to include every historical evil.

The proper definition of apparent evil, however, is prima facie evil which when judged from an ultimate frame of reference is that in the place of which no other realistically possible occurrence could be better.2 «Apparent» evil is not only a means to perfection, but also a morally necessary and justified means.

J. L. Mackie... recognizes that the inconsistency can be overcome by saying that all prima facie evil is only apparently evil.

If we wish to know whether Whitehead's cosmology transforms all prima facie evils into apparent evils, we should ask, «From the divine perspective, is there that without which both the world and God could be better?»

«Apparent» evil refers to prima facie evils which are ultimately judged to embody the best of all realistically possible alternatives; «genuine» evil refers to occurrences which embody those alternatives which are less than the best of all realistically possible occurrences.

We can understand that God could allow prima facie evils insofar as things that seem evil from a limited perspective may serve instrumentally to make the world better than it would have been without them.

Hasker's real position, in other words, seems to be that although at one level the prima facie evils of this world are gratuitous evils, they at another level are not, because their very gratuitousness is intended by God to evoke our moral efforts to overcome them.

Not exact matches

This two-fold belief seems, prima facie, to be in conflict with the evil in the world.

In response, we then went on to give the standard free - will response: that the prima facie plausibility of this contention is deceiving, that while it may seem easy to identify specific aspects of our present system that it appears could be profitably removed with impunity, what the critic must do in this case is identify another entire determinate natural order that would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar new evils, but still imply the goods that make human life possible.