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PROBLEM OF EVIL AND BADNESS

Živan Bezić ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Split

Abstract

Suspicion about the existence of evil in the world is a chimerical
one. Evil is a cruel reality of everyday life and philosophically
debatable is only its theoretical nature. Evil is not explainable without
the good and God, but in such a way that it can only manifest itself as
a shadow and defect of good. Evil and good are not two independent
ontological entities, let alone two existential principles. In the world
created by the Absolute Good there is no place for the principle of
bad. If there was something to exist apart from God, something
and not nothing, creatures could not enjoy divine perfection. But
“God can write straight even with crooked lines”, and He solved the
problem of evil and sin in a redemptive manner.

Keywords

evil; good; philosophy; morality; theology; being; creation; perfection; God

Hrčak ID:

23498

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/23498

Publication date:

21.12.2006.

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