Episode 10, The Problem of Evil (Part II)
The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast
Jack Symes | Andrew Horton, Oliver Marley, and Rose de Castellane
4.8 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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You can find links to all the reading at www.thepanpsychist.com/panpsycast. Make sure you've subscribed to us on iTunes to get new episodes as and when they're released! Thank you, we hope you enjoy the episode! Part I. The Problem of Evil (start of Episode 10, (Part I)), Part II. Theodicies (start of Episode 10, (Part II)), Part III. The Free Will Defence (34:00 in Episode 10, (Part II)), Part IV. Further Analysis and Discussion (start of Episode 10, (Part III)).
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| 0:00.0 | Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan Pan |
| 0:07.0 | Psychos. |
| 0:09.0 | Part 2, Theodyses. Our enquiry question, is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, don't be stupid. It's a theodicy. |
| 0:24.6 | Our first question, let's answer that. What is a theodicy? Okay, so this is a, obviously the problem |
| 0:30.2 | of evil, as we've realized, has been around four centuries, and Christians have been |
| 0:34.3 | responding to it four centuries. So they've actually come up with their own word. |
| 0:38.4 | So Theodicy is the attempt to answer the question of why God allows evil in the world. |
| 0:46.2 | So different attempts, we're going to be looking at Augustine and Arranius' Theodices. |
| 0:51.2 | All that simply means is their attempts to respond to this question. |
| 0:55.4 | And you can have your own theodicy. There's loads of other theodices as well. |
| 0:59.1 | It's just your attempt to answer this question of why God allows evil. |
| 1:02.0 | These two are the most popular and perhaps the best theodicies, and hence why we're going to be |
| 1:06.2 | looking at them today. Right, so we look at Augustinian Theodicy from Augustine first. Who's Augustine? Jack, |
| 1:14.1 | Olly and Andy investigate. So who's Augustine, Andy? Augustine is arguably, so we looked at Aquinas |
| 1:24.2 | a couple episodes ago and we kind of toted him as the most important |
| 1:27.5 | theologian to whoever graced this earth. |
| 1:30.6 | And to a point that might be somewhat correct in influence, but if there was a contest, |
| 1:37.1 | then Augustine would probably be up there. |
| 1:39.9 | If not the top, then probably the second on just impact on what he's had to say and the impact |
| 1:44.8 | he's had on Christianity. |
| 1:45.4 | Are you putting first out of interest? |
| 1:47.6 | Well, out of the two, I personally, I had to know, I like them for different reasons, but I'd |
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