[PhilosophyStudent123]

Hi Ms Horlsey, thank you for this very thorough reply to my question.

My current teachers recommend this structure: 2 PACEs. Point, analysis, counter and evaluation. Each side has 3 pieces of evidence. I like your structure but I am not sure I have confidence in myself to consistently identify 3/4 themes. Like for example: “Assess Ayer’s verification principle”

Do you think essay plans like this are still good? Sometimes they get a bit too busy, and there might be a lot of concept-crowding, but I am not sure. Below are two plans

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Assess the view that God is not benevolent:

Paragraph one:

P- The Old Testament view

A-

Book of Job;

swinburne- overprotective parent;

petitionary worship and responding

C-

Boethius: a temporal view- meaningful engagement how?;

God is seen as capricious and impersonal (leviticus) inconsistent with his general attributes;

Anselm’s four dimensions- God is outside of time so events are anochronistic in his view

E-

Solved by Swinburne’s everlasting view

Aquinas- God’s omnipotence involves logically coherent powers: can still engage in sustained relations;

e-temporarily vs t-temporality

Paragraph two:

P- New Testament view

A-

God: agape- Jesus and sermon on the mount;

kenosis- “self-emptying”;

story of the bleeding woman

C-

Problem of evil: Mackie’s inconsistent triad;

Dysteleological suffering

E- Irenaean theodicy; epistemic distance and constantly adjusting the soul making requirements -> Kieersgaard analogy of slave and peasent girl

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4* ‘Natural evil has no purpose.’ Discuss

Natural evil: the inflictions of harm by nature. Defined viscerally by Hume and Mill “nature’s daily performances” to torment. Animal suffering. This converges with the logical problem of evil- Mackie’s inconsistent triad. Has a purpose in soul-making and punishing human sin

P- Hick’s view of soul making

A- Irenean theodicy: God’s image to God’s likeness (as opposed to a vale of tears and suffering). Better in world where humans grow as opposed to pre-programmed

Hick: people choose God and there is an epistemic distance

Example of lung cancer

C-

Dysteleological evil and kamenev

The Brothers Kamenev

William Rowe- fawn dying in forest fire

DZ Phillips

E- Evaluative strengths: Kieirsgaard slave and peasant girl, Swinburne “Toy world” and evils in direct proportion

P- result of human sin

A- Augustine: “privation of Good”. Original sin because of Adam and Eve. Manichean upbringing

C- Pelagius; Jean Jacques Rousseau; unscientific and homunculus theory

E- “just yet inscrutable judgment of God”; GK Chesterson- empirically verifiable doctrine; shifts the blame

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