Document Type : Scientific-research

Author

• sara ghezelbash

researcher

Abstract

The problem of evil, as one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion, is based on the assumption that if God is omnipotent and absolutely good, He should have prevented the occurrence of evil, and the existence of evil in the world is a logical contradiction with His existence. Now, if a perspective, while accepting the initial assumption, can provide an answer to this contradiction, it has solved the problem of evil. In this article, we will try to answer the questions of the problem of evil based on these general principles, while examining the general principles of the ontological system of Zoroastrianism and Suhrawardī's Ishrāqī philosophy, such as the non-existence of evil, possibility, defect, and disability as ontological sources of evil, and the necessity of the temporal movement of the beings of the elemental world from defect to perfection and from potential to actual in the context of time as the quality of the manifestation of evil.The problem of evil, as one of the most important issues in the philosophy of religion, is based on the assumption that if God is omnipotent and absolutely good, He should have prevented the occurrence of evil, and the existence of evil in the world is a logical contradiction with His existence. Now, if a perspective, while accepting the initial assumption, can provide an answer to this contradiction,

Keywords

• Good and evil"
• Avesta"
• Hormozd"
• Ahrīman"
• Ishrāqī philosophy"
• "
• Problem of Evil"

Main Subjects

• philosophy