[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
- From: "Peter D. Junger" <junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:05:03 -0500
Donal McEvoy writes:
:
: Again without anything like full knowledge..
:
: > More than fifty years ago I found myself worrying about this in
: > a course in Medievial Intellectual History. I wrote something
: > like "God can't or won't do evil" and the grader crossed out
: > the verbs and wrote, as I recall, "doesn't."
:
: This seems to me possibly one or all of the following:-
: 1) Someone imposing their values by way of teaching.
: 2) Someone imposing their values by way of not engaging the actual problem
: (in general terms, ' If God Has All-Power, Has He Power To Make Himself Not
: All-Powerful Or Not'? - the answer seems paradoxical whichever) - there is no
: answer to Peter's reply.
: 3) Peter's pedantic memory for when a grader had his work "crossed out".
: Ahh..
I wrote it as part of an answer to a question on an exam; a question
about the position of some medieval intellectual history. The
grader---a graduate student---made helpful comments on my answer
and did not just assign a grade. The crossing out and replacement
was part of those helpful comments. My answer had indicated that
I was not sure what the correct term to describe the medieval
scholar's position; the grader helpfully supplied the correct term
The grader most certainly was not describing his own position.
I do not know who the grader was and he did not know whose exam he
was grading, but I did know at least one of the graders in the course,
who was a brilliant scholar as well as a very nice person.
--
Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
EMAIL: junger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://samsara.law.cwru.edu
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