Question

ACTIVITY 1
Draft a note on your response to the evil customs that prevailed in
India.​

Answer 1

Answer:

e are living in the 21st century, an era where men and women are now given equal rights and liberties in the world.

However, even after so much effort by social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the early 19th century, India is still orthodox when it comes to giving equal rights to women as against men.

Here are 5 social evils that still remain in the roots of the society:

1. No education for girls

If the female literacy rate is low in a country then the growth of the country is sluggish because when a woman is not educated, it impacts every member of the family.

Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar have the lowest female literacy rate.

According to 2011 census, Arunachal Pradesh (66.95 percent) is placed second-lowest in literacy in the country, just above Bihar, which recorded the least literacy of 63.82 percent

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Answer 2

Answer:

Abstract: Social evil is any pain or suffering brought about by game-theoretic interactions of

many individuals. This paper introduces and discusses the problem of social evil. I begin by

focusing on social evil brought about by game-theoretic interactions of rational, moral

individuals. The problem social evil poses for theism is distinct from problems posed by natural

and moral evils. Social evil is not a natural evil because it is brought about by the choices of

individuals. But social evil is not a form of moral evil because each individual actor does not

misuse his freewill. Traditional defenses for natural and moral evil fall short in addressing the

problem of social evil. The final section of this paper discusses social evil and virtue. I argue

that social evil can arise even where virtue is lacking. Further, I explore the possibility of an

Edwardsian defense of social evil that stresses the high demands of true virtue. The conclusion

of this paper is that social evil is problematic and provides a new ground for exploring the

conceptual resources of theism.

Discussion on the problem of evil assumes that there are two classes of evils: natural evil

and moral evil.1

Richard Swinburne divides “the world’s evils in the traditional way into moral

evils and natural evils.”2 Swinburne characterizes moral evils as “those brought about by human

intentional choice, or knowingly allowed to occur by humans, together with the evils of their

intentional bad actions or negligence.”

3

Natural evils, according to Swinburne, are “all other

evils, such as bad desires that we cannot help, disease, and accidents.”

4

Alvin Plantinga provides

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