There has recently been increased interest in debates about the nature of God, supernatural entities and the problem of evil outside the Western tradition and there is a growing realization that, 4. The idea that the evil results from free will - Evil results from free will. will. A world with humans and the evil that results from their free will is better than a world without humans, even if that world had no evil. War, murder, torture, etc. are worth the price of the positive aspects that arise from human free will. ISSUES - We can answer them for free. Thomas Aquinas. The Problem of Evil by Saint Thomas Aquinas is a philosophical treatise that explores the question of evil in the world and its compatibility with the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God. Aquinas examines the nature of evil, its causes, and how it can be reconciled with belief in a benevolent God. Describe and critically explore key debates in African philosophy of religion on two interrelated topics: concepts. of God and supernatural entities and b the problem of evil. o. This article applied the philosophical theory of critical realism to the problem of evil. Using the method of critical analysis of related literature, the article discovered, among other things, that. The problem that immediately comes to mind is that the various forms of absolute idealism themselves generally face problems that seem in many ways to mirror the problem of evil, to the point that it is tempting to say that the problem of evil simply reproduces itself in other forms. for absolute idealism. There are at least two such problems. In one of her first essays after the end of the Second World War, Arendt wrote in 1945 that "the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe" p. 134 added emphasis. The question of how human beings could do so much harm to each other occupied Arendt for most of her life, particularly in the wake of the Civil War.