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    The cause of all evil in the world is man, not God — Carmelics
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    The cause of all evil in the world is man, not God

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    • 1.God made all things right
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    • 2.Evil and injustice exist in the world
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    • 3.Therefore evil must originate from human action, not divine creation
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    • 1.Natural evils such as earthquakes, disease, and famine occur independently of human action or moral choice.
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    • 2.A God who designed a world with such natural evils built into its structure bears causal responsibility for those evils.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim that God made all things right is incompatible with the existence of natural evil regardless of human conduct.
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    • 1.If God is omniscient, God foreknew that humans would produce evil prior to creating them.
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    • 2.A being who deliberately creates agents it foresees will cause suffering is not fully absolved of responsibility for that suffering.
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    • 3.Rousseau's own theodicy, which similarly locates evil in human institutions, was challenged by Voltaire after Lisbon precisely on the grounds that structural creation entails structural culpability.
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    Wollstonecraft’s Vindication was the first of many replies. Amongst those that followed was one by Catharine Macaulay, who had influenced Wollstonecraft’s pedagogy and was much admired by her (Gunther-Canada 1998; Coffee, 2019). Wollstonecraft’s riposte is an interesting and rhetorically powerful work in its own right as well as a necessary introduction to the Vindication of the Rights of Woman. It consists mostly of a sustained attack on Burke rather than a defence of the rights of man. This is
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