 Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able ? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing ? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil ? You ascribe, Cleanthes (and I believe...  Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - Сторінка 186автори: David Hume - 1779 - 264 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1918 - 566 стор.
...parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! " " Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he...Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" "The true conclusion is, that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these... | |
 | 1918 - 850 стор.
...parental care, her maimed and abortive children ! " " Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he...Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" "The true conclusion is, that the original source of all things is entirely indifferent to all these... | |
 | David Hume - 1927 - 444 стор.
...benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? EPICURUS'S old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...he both able and willing? whence then is evil? You ascribe, CLEANTHES, (and I believe justly) a purpose and intention to Nature. But what, I beseech you,... | |
 | Angus Stewart Woodburne - 1927 - 376 стор.
...can scarcely present it more plainly than Epicurus did two thousand two hundred years ago. "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then is He...Is He both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" " How can the existence of evil in the universe be explained in consonance with the character of God?... | |
 | 1880 - 886 стор.
...he otherwise might have done on the wounds and the ruin of affection. " Is the Deity," says Hume, " willing to prevent evil, but not able ? Then is he...Is he both able and willing ? Whence, then, is evil ? " Whence, our hearts may well repeat, is all this pain, misery, and anguish, which a being whose... | |
 | David Hume - 1878 - 496 стор.
...and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men ? EPICUEUS'S old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able ? then...Is he both able and willing ? whence then is evil ? Ton ascribe, CLEANTHEB, (and I believe justly) a purpose and intention to Nature. But what, I beseech... | |
 | Stephen David Ross - 1981 - 164 стор.
...have created a world free from evil. The problem of evil is a problem of perfection. In Humes words, "Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" 1 The typical answers are: (1) From a divine standpoint, evil is really good. This reply establishes... | |
 | M. Conrad Hyers - 1984 - 220 стор.
...unnecessary theological difficulties, including the artificiality of the Humean (and Epicurean) dilemma: "Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?"14 If one unites both sides of the nature of creativity, the terms Creator and creation conform... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1988 - 230 стор.
...benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? . . . But allowing you what never will be believed, at least what you never possibly can prove, that... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - 1990 - 172 стор.
...benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus' old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?5 Hume charges the theist with some sort of contradiction between the existence of evil and the... | |
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