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This 6 page paper is a reaction to and review of the short book The Problem of Evil by Errol Harris. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Review and Reaction: The Problem of Evil Research Compiled for
, Inc. by K. Von Huben 6/2010 Please Introduction In his lecture entitled "The Problem of Evil," Errol Harris
revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how can evil exist? This paper reviews Harriss lecture and reacts to it.
Discussion Maybe the reaction should come first. Simply put, like most philosophy, this is a tough go. What, for instance, is a non-philosophically minded person to make of this: "If
one interprets all this in terms of the immanence of the infinite in the finite, and of the finite as the self-specification of the infinite, we have virtually the same
doctrine as I have been at pains to expound" (Harris 45). All righty then. Harris is no more difficult than any other philosopher, but like all of them, it takes
more than one reading to follow his arguments. In addition, his style seems somewhat pedantic at times, using words like "nisus" instead of the more familiar "striving." He is given
to the type of sentences quoted above-they run on, with numerous subordinate clauses that make it very difficult to follow his arguments. Perhaps there is no better way to put
things, but it seems unnecessarily complex. The book is not really a book, but a lecture that Harris gave in 1977 at Marquette University; it was one of a series
of annual lectures that the university holds in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. To make things more complicated, Harris wasnt advancing his thinking on the problem of good and evil,
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