TY - BOOK AU - Herman, L. Arthur TI - The problem of evil & Indian thought SN - 9788120807532 U1 - 181.4 PY - 2000/// CY - Delhi PB - MBP KW - Hindu religions. KW - Religious Belief - India N1 - PART I PHILOSOPHY AND PROBLEMS OF EVIL 1. The Historical Background 1. St. Augustine a. Divine Providence b. Free Choice of the Will c. Confessions d. City of God e. Enchiridion f. Conclusion 2. Interim a. Plotinus b. Dionysius c. St. Thomas Aquinas 3. G. E. Leibniz * a. Theodicy b. Conclusion 4. John Stuart Mill a. Three Essays on Religion b. Conclusion 5. JosiAH Royce a. The World and the Individual b. Conclusion 6. John Hick a. Evil and the God of Love b. Conclusion 7. Summary of Historical Back ground (Ch. I) II. The Problem of Evil 1. Introduction 2. The Theological Problem of Evil a. The Theological Theses b. The Evil Thesis 3. Conclusion to the Problem of Evil (Ch. II) III. Solutions to the Theological Problem of Human Evil 1. Philosophical Problems and Solutions a. Three Criteria for Solutions to TPHE 2. Some Reductions 3. Eight Solutions and Their Analysis 4. Conclusion (Ch. Ill) IV. Conclusion to Part I 1. Internal Problems 2. External Problems THE INDIAN DOCTRINE OF REBIRTH V. The Historical Background of Sarhsara 1. The Mobile Soul Doctrine in the Vedic Period 2. Upanisadic Sarhsara 3. Sarhsara in the Bhagavad Gita 4. Conclusion VI. The Assumptions of the Rebirth Thesis The Soul Thesis 1. Theravada Buddhism 2. Plato 3. Ananda K. Coomara- SWAMY and Samkara 4. Sarhkhya 5. Nyaya 6. Samkara 7. Personal Identity : West and East 8. Aurobindo Chose 9. Goriclusion To A^ A® The Soul-Locus Thesis 1. Plato 2. Jainism 3. Buddhism 4. Conclusion To A'^ A® The Mobile-Soul Thesis 1. General Conditions 2. The Mobile-Soul System 3. Conclusion To A® . A* The Karma Thesis 1. The Indian Context 2. Right and Wrong Under the Law of Karma 3. The Law in the Law of Karma 4. Plato 5. Buddhism 6. Other Indian Systems 7. Aurobindo Ghose 8. Conclusion To A* VII. Conclusion to Part II PART III REBIRTH AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL VIII. The Indian Assumptions to T.P.E. 1. Indian Analysis of the Theological Theses a. The Omnipotence Thesis b. The Omniscience Thesis c. The Ethical Thesis 2. Indian Analysis of the Evil Thesis IX. Two Indian Solutions to T.P.E. 1. The Necessity of Evil : The Necessary Solution 2. Transmigration and Reincar nation; The Rebirth Solution a. The Rebirth Solution Will Solve T.P.E. b. The Rebirth Solution Will Not Solve T.P.E. 3. Indian "Theodicy" : Samkara and Rama- NUJA on Brahma Sutra II. 1. 32-36 ER -