{"podcast":{"title":"The Luxury of Virtue","slug":"the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409","podcast_index_feed_id":7020409,"rss_url":"https://feeds.zencastr.com/f/ct8Tn-c5.rss","website_url":"https://zencastr.com/The-Luxury-of-Virtue","image_url":"https://media.zencastr.com/image-files/64df8cc3b9f97166287697c5/4b6bfbed-16df-4ff0-be28-b700bbe2e06d.jpg","author":"rcgphi@gmail.com","episode_count":38,"summary":"These are PHIL courses taught by R. C. M. García at El Camino College.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-09T12:17:08.865737+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409"},"episode":{"title":"Lesson 2.2: The Problem of Evil, Pt. II","slug":"lesson-2-2-the-problem-of-evil-pt-ii","published_at":"2026-05-12T22:29:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409/lesson-2-2-the-problem-of-evil-pt-ii","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409","url":"https://zencastr.com/z/i_OuNXyJ","audio_url":"https://redirect.zencastr.com/r/episode/6a03a9c2d5c9269b0680ae48/size/1145268358/video-files/64df8cc3b9f97166287697c5/01eebefb-9a57-444b-a350-b748650586b5.mp4","summary":"When the world looks cruel, every defense of God becomes a theory of human nature. Topics Discussed * The problem of evil argument and the two main ways to resist it: reject premise 1 or reject premise 2. * Leibniz's \"best of all possible worlds\" theodicy, including its psychological promise of consolation and its ethical demand for active striving. * Voltaire's mockery of Leibniz after the Lisbon earthquake, especially the charge that \"the best of all possible worlds\" sounds absurd in the face of real suffering. * Other responses to the problem of evil: deism, the devil, free will, evil as a counterpart to good, the soul-making defense, and skepticism about whether we can prove that unnecessary suffering exists. * The connection between theology and moral psychology in Hobbes, Leibniz, and Spinoza: whether people need religion, political authority, or freedom from superstition in order to live well.","meta_description":"When the world looks cruel, every defense of God becomes a theory of human nature. Topics Discussed * The problem of evil argument and the two main ways t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4515,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409/episodes/lesson-2-2-the-problem-of-evil-pt-ii/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-luxury-of-virtue-7020409/lesson-2-2-the-problem-of-evil-pt-ii.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}