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Single Idea 1472
[filed under theme 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
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Full Idea
There is a contradiction between the propositions that God is wholly good, God is omnipotent, and evil exists, and one of them has got to give way (assuming good eliminates evil, and omnipotence has no limit).
Gist of Idea
The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory
Source
report of J.L. Mackie (Evil and Omnipotence [1955], Pref.) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Ref
'The Philosophy of Religion', ed/tr. Mitchell,Basil [OUP 1971], p.92
The
12 ideas
from J.L. Mackie
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8342
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Mackie tries to analyse singular causal statements, but his entities are too vague for events
[Kim on Mackie]
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8343
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Necessity and sufficiency are best suited to properties and generic events, not individual events
[Kim on Mackie]
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8385
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A cause is part of a wider set of conditions which suffices for its effect
[Mackie, by Crane]
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8395
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Mackie has a nomological account of general causes, and a subjunctive conditional account of single ones
[Mackie, by Tooley]
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8333
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A cause is an Insufficient but Necessary part of an Unnecessary but Sufficient condition
[Mackie]
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8334
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The virus causes yellow fever, and is 'the' cause; sweets cause tooth decay, but they are not 'the' cause
[Mackie]
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8335
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Necessary conditions are like counterfactuals, and sufficient conditions are like factual conditionals
[Mackie]
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8336
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The INUS account interprets single events, and sequences, causally, without laws being known
[Mackie]
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8337
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Some says mental causation is distinct because we can recognise single occurrences
[Mackie]
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4761
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The 'error theory' of morals says there is no moral knowledge, because there are no moral facts
[Mackie, by Engel]
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1473
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Is evil an illusion, or a necessary contrast, or uncontrollable, or necessary for human free will?
[Mackie, by PG]
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1472
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The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory
[Mackie, by PG]
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