131: The problem of evil and suffering, with Eleonore Stump

Pints With Aquinas · Nov 6, 2018 · 59m

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Here's my previous episode on the problem of evil.

Here's how Aquinas formulated the problem of evil:

"It seems that God does not exist; because if one of two contraries be infinite, the other would be altogether destroyed. But the word "God" means that He is infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore God does not exist."

A bit about my guest Eleonore Stump:

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis…