(PDF) John Perry, Dialogue on Good, Evil, and the Existence of God. Reviewed by Murdith McLean - Academia.edu Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. John Perry-author of the acclaimed Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality (Hackett Publishing Co., 1978)-revisits Gretchen Weirob in this lively and absorbing dialogue on good, evil, and the existence of God. In the early part of the work, Gretchen and her friends consider whether evil provides a problem for those who believe in the.
Synopsis
The Person Of God
Excerpt
Gretchen Weirob, Sam Miller, and Dave Cohen are my inventions. I think of them as having a life beyond these Dialogues, however, that explains how they came to be written. When Weirob, Miller, and Cohen had philosophical conversations, Miller kept fairly detailed notes. He wrote these notes up in a rather dry fashion, which focused on the arguments. Dave Cohen gave me a lot of information about how the conversations actually went, and of course, I have my own memories of Gretchen. These are the sources I have used to reconstruct this dialogue and its counterpart, A Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality.
Given Sam's methodical ways, it is surprising that his notes on these conversations were so scattered about. But as it turned out, the notes were inserted in the copies of books they had discussed in the conversations. The notes for the other Dialogue were found in Sam's copy of Locke Essay, which I borrowed from his library not long after he died. I had no idea that Sam had saved notes of other conversations until a couple of years ago, when the task of sorting all of his books fell to me. The notes for this conversation were found in his copy of Augustine Confessions.
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Book details
96 pages
Publisher:Hackett
Place of publication: Indianapolis
Publication year: 1999