 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 justly), a purpose and intention to Nature.  The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - 163 페이지 편집 - 1779전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | William Carl Placher - 1988 - 230 페이지
...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 able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? . . . But allowing you what never will be believed,... | |
 | Kelly James Clark - 1990 - 172 페이지
...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...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?5 Hume charges the theist with some sort of contradiction... | |
 | Wolf Kindermann - 1993 - 264 페이지
...der Theodizee bleibe nach wie vor gültig: "Epicurus' old questions are yet unanswered. Is he [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willingt? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?" Der inhärente... | |
 | David Arthur Pailin - 1994 - 258 페이지
...stated by David Hume when he poses 'Epicurus' old questions' about God and the evil found in the world: 'Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?' (Hume 1935: 244; cf. also Lactantius quoted in Hick... | |
 | Terrence W. Tilley - 1995 - 196 페이지
...resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's Old Questions are yet unanswered. Is he [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? (1779:198) Here Philo claims that whatever we mean by... | |
 | R. Douglas Geivett - 1995 - 294 페이지
...Religion. Here Philo says to Demea, "Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he [the Deity] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?"10 Martin Gardner notes that "this argument, deadly... | |
 | William Carl Placher - 1996 - 240 페이지
...such a world? As David Hume wrote two centuries ago, "Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?"1 In such a world, one could argue, faith in any God... | |
 | Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 페이지
...nature with these virtues in human creatures." Philo crystallizes the problem astutely, asking of God, Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then...he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? Demea adopts the traditional Christian solution of Augustine... | |
 | David Hume, Richard H. Popkin - 1998 - 158 페이지
...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...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 justly), a purpose... | |
 | David Hume - 1998 - 260 페이지
...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 able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?* You ascribe, CLEANTHES (and I believe justly) a purpose... | |
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