"The Mirror of Evil" Self-Quiz

. What is the problem of evil?

It is the question raised by the fact that there is evil in the world, despite the fact that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good.

It is the question of whether people are fundamentally good or bad

It is the question raised by the fact that people work at reforming the world but evil remains

It is a question about whether power necessarily makes people evil

. Which of the following isnt a way of responding to evil that Stump talks about?

Recognizing that evil is necessary for there to be good

Staring evil in the face loathingly

Laboring at obliviousness about evil

Ignoring evil and focusing on ones own immediate life

. For Stump, our moral intuition or faculty is . . .

A rational faculty that allows us to recognize good and evil.

A way of remembering what counts as good and what counts as evil.

A primal ability to recognize good and evil.

Culturally relative.

. What is the significance of Philip Hallie in Stumps essay?

Hallie is an example of someone who lost faith in God by focusing on the evils humans have done

Hallie is an example of someone who came to discern God by loathingly staring evil in its face

Hallie is an example of a hobbit he ignores evil and focuses on the immediate things in his life

Hallie is an example of a reformer who fails to recognize the futility of removing human defects

. What is reflective equilibrium?

The process of rationally coming to see that Gods goodness is reflected in evil

The process of forming ones initial intuitions

The process of loathingly looking at evil and coming to accept it as a necessary fact

The process of bringing ones intuitions and theories in harmony

. Stump holds that we can make sense of evil using our faculty for reason.

True

False

. Stump argues that we can come into contact with God by emotionally engaging with evil.

True

False

. For Stump, we should focus our energy on removing the defects in humans that lead to evil.

True

FALSE

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