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  1. Dialogue On Good Evil And The Existence Of God
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The author revisits the cast of characters of his well-known Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality in this lively and absorbing dialogue on good, evil, and the existence of God. Does evil in the world present a problem to those who believe in the perfection of God? What is the nature of human evil? Can fully rational actions be intentionally evil? Gretchen Weirob and her friends tackle these questions and more in a dialogue that exemplifies the subtleties and intricacies of philosophical reflection. Once again, Perry's ability to get to the heart of matters combines with his mastery of the dialogue form.

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  1. Sep 15, 1999 Evil is supposed to count against the existence of God, and the theist is supposed to show that it does not, e.g. By showing how a good God might allow for evils. In this dialogue various explanations of how God might allow for evils are presented, including the free will and afterlife theodicies.
  2. Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God (Hackett Philosophical Dialogues) 27 August 2017 / in Bookshop, World Religions and Interreligious Dialogue / by promosaik John Perry–author of the acclaimed Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (Hackett Publishing Co., 1978)–revisits Gretchen Weirob in this lively and absorbing.

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Gretchen Weirob, Sam Miller, and Dave Cohen are my inventions. I think of them as having a life beyond these Dialogues, however, that explains how they came to be written. When Weirob, Miller, and Cohen had philosophical conversations, Miller kept fairly detailed notes. He wrote these notes up in a rather dry fashion, which focused on the arguments. Dave Cohen gave me a lot of information about how the conversations actually went, and of course, I have my own memories of Gretchen. These are the sources I have used to reconstruct this dialogue and its counterpart, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality.

Given Sam's methodical ways, it is surprising that his notes on these conversations were so scattered about. But as it turned out, the notes were inserted in the copies of books they had discussed in the conversations. The notes for the other Dialogue were found in Sam's copy of Locke Essay, which I borrowed from his library not long after he died. I had no idea that Sam had saved notes of other conversations until a couple of years ago, when the task of sorting all of his books fell to me. The notes for this conversation were found in his copy of Augustine Confessions.

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Book details

96 pages

Publisher:Hackett

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Dialogue On Good Evil And The Existence Of God

Place of publication: Indianapolis

Publication year: 1999

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Dialogue On Good Evil And The Existence Of God Pdf Writer Download

Dialogue of Good, Evil, and the Existence of God by John Perry
In John Perry's book Dialogue on Good, Evil and the Existence of God, he used three characters in the dialogue in order to clarify the positions of the three characters (Weirob, Miller, and Cohen), the arguments they provide in support their positions and the 'end state' of their discussion. This allows us to examine our understanding of the good, evil and the existence of God.
Perry shows a clear position of Weirob, Miller, and Cohen. Weirob is a philosopher who is not a Christian. She does not believe God exist. She only believe evil exist without God. She thinks if God really exists in this world, then God is a monster (evil) because God lets her suffered. She challenges with Miller's belief and claims that there is no God exist. She wants Miller to proof there is possibility of his beliefs. Miller is a Christian who believes in God. He thinks evil and God can both exist in this world. Therefore, he has to convince Weirob to believe there is possibility that God and evil are both exist in order to win the debate and also pray for her. Cohen is a neutral one between them. He is the judge. He helps Weirob and Miller to figure out what is their own point of view all the times and also he raises some useful ideas to solve their arguments. It seems that he is so helpful in this debate.
Weirob does not believe in God, so she does not admit Miller to pray for her. First, Weirob claims, 'how in the world does a prayer help?' (p.2) to raise the debate of good, evil and the existence of God. She thinks Miller simply would be communication to his omniscient God for what God already knows, thereby wasting God's time and his ..
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..te. But he is really helpful to them because he raises some useful ideas during the debate. Finally, he does not really show up what is his thinking, but his ideas are very convincing us to think he believes there is God exists.
After reading this book, I know the author Perry tries to use these dialogues of three characters to explain that we have freedom to choose our own beliefs and also the definition of good and evil can be difference because different people will have different point of views. Especially other creatures and human maybe have different definition in good and evil, joy and suffering. Furthermore, he convince us that there is no inconsistent between good and evil, suffering and pleasure because two things seem contradiction to each other but actually they could be fit together with an actual providing of a possible big picture.