, death and its aftermath. Even if an individual is king of the world, leader of the greatest army, he or she still will suffer more than he or she enjoys life, and the greatest joys are brief and mild compared to the intensity and duration of suffering.
Philo agrees with Demea that life is a miserable experience overall. How, then, can anyone say that an all-good and all-powerful God created such a world? To Philo, such a claim is simply not grounded in reason, not grounded in the reason which perceives, experiences and analyzes the human condition. To Philo, it cannot be reason which brings a person, based on his or her experience in the physical world of nature and humanity, of life and suffering and death, to conclude that God is infinitely good:
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