A Critical Reconsideration of some Conceptions of Evil and the Atheological Arguments
The problem of evil has, for long, been an open-ended discourse in world scholarship, especially in the Tphilosophical circle. It has been engaged by various cultural and intellectual traditions. Accordingly, there are as many conceptions of evil as there are as many cultural civilisations in the world. There are two cogent atheological arguments – logical and evidential – through which the problem of evil has been traditionally formulated. While logical argument, also referred to as deductive argument, insists on the view that the essential attributes of God are contradictory with the reality of evil in the world, evidential argument, also referred to as inductive argument, maintains that all instances and traces of evil in the world make the existence of a morally good God improbable at best. However, using the methods of critical argumentation and rigorous analysis, this paper revisits some enduring conceptions of evil in scholarship with a critical lens
Keywords: arguments, atheological, conceptions, critical, evil, reconsideration