[lit-ideas] Re: The Problem of Evil
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How did saxophones get on that list?
Julie Krueger
who loves a good jazz sax riff
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A little research gave me this. In _Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion_, David Hume maintains
that we cannot say for sure that the world was
created by perfect good or by perfect evil. As far
as theology goes, he seems to be saying that the
Devil, God's Prosecutor in Job, may have had a
hand in the design.
There may "four" hypotheses be framed
concerning the first causes of
the universe: that they are endowed with
perfect goodness, that
they are endowed with perfect malice, that
they are opposite and
have both goodness and malice, that they have
neither goodness nor
malice. Mixed phenomena can never prove the
two former unmixed
principles. And the uniformity and steadiness
of general laws seems
to oppose the third. The fourth, therefore,
seems be far the most
probable.
(Part XI)
The Devil has some obvious contributions, to be
sure: my chili, saxophones, collapsible
push-scooters for adults, chocolate egg cream,
flavored rum, bathroom scales, door-close buttons
in elevators, TBS, musical birthday cards, films
by M. Night Shyamalan, the Comet Cursor, and so on.
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