A Comparative Study of Suhrawardi and Swinburne on the Problem of Evil

Suhrawardi and Swinburne have studied the problem of evil in two different philosophical traditions. Suhrawardi's solutions for the problem can be offered in four views of evil as being: nothing, inseparable from superior cases of good, inseparable from perfection, and the view of evil and human will. Swinburne offers two main solutions to ethical and natural evils: 1. Defence on the basis of human will; 2. Defence based on justice and superiority in three narratives: a) Aesthetic evil; b. Ethical good. C) Attaining knowledge. In this paper, with a documentive method and content analysis, in addition to presenting a coherent outlook of the two philosophers' ideas in the field, an attempt has been made to study their ontology of evil critically, make their common and different cases of thought clear and, finally, present a more reasonable view.