Poblem of evil as an apparently incompatible group of claim

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1. Explain the problem of evil as an apparently incompatible group of claims about God's nature and the existence of evil and suffering in this world. Then explain the theodicies (greater goods, free will defense, and natural order), which are intended to solve the problem.
2. Explain the three key points made by the nonevidentialists. Then, explain the nonevidentialist theories of Blaise Pascal, and Soren Kierkegaard.
3. Explain these aspects of Jeremy Bentham's theory of utilitarianism: hedonism, sentience, the principle of utility, and the use of seven criteria to make utilitarian calculations. Then, explain John Stuart Mill's qualitative distinction between distinctively human pleasures and pains, and merely sensual pleasures and pains; finally, explain Mill's claim that the former are higher (worth more) than the latter.
5. Explain the feminist critique of traditional philosophy, both epistemology and ethics. Then, explain the feminist proposals for "care-focused" and "power-focused" ethics.

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