Begin with a question
Each route begins with a different question. None offers a shortcut, or hands you a reassuring answer and calls it thinking.
If God has unlimited power, complete knowledge and perfect goodness, why does apparently pointless suffering occur? A defence must explain both human wrongdoing and suffering no person chooses.
Goodness and sufferingShowing that God and evil could coexist is not yet an explanation of why this world contains so much suffering.Philosophy in motion
Ideas become clearer when we test them, challenge them, and let the bad ones lose.
A question should make the familiar strange enough to inspect.
Confidence can begin an inquiry. It cannot finish the argument.
Sources matter when their claims can be examined, connected and challenged.
Today at Bibby Philosophy
Connected gameBad Argument ArenaName the fallacy before confidence wins the bout.
Featured thinkerBertrand RussellRussell treats clarity as philosophical work: separate the claims, expose their logical relations and discover whether the original problem survives.KnowledgeAgencyContinue on this siteEpistemologyClaims, reasons and the patient exposure of unsupported inference.
