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ISBN 10:019882162X
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Author: Trakakis
One of those rare questions in philosophy that is not only technically recalcitrant but also engages the hearts and minds of the broad community is the so-called ‘problem of evil’: How can the existence of an absolutely perfect God be reconciled with the existence of suffering and evil? This collection of dialogues between eight philosophers of religion explores new ways of thinking about this longstanding problem, in the process reorienting and reinvigorating the philosophical debate around the relationship between God, goodness and evil: How exactly are these three notions connected, if at all? Is God the cause, or author, of evil and suffering? How is the goodness of God to be understood, and how is divine goodness related to human morality? Does God’s perfect goodness entail that God must have reasons for permitting or bringing about suffering, and if so what could his reasons be? These questions are of momentous existential and theoretical interest, and they have exercised the finest intellects across the centuries. The time is ripe for a wholesale reconsideration of the problem of evil. To make progress towards this goal, eight distinct perspectives are placed in mutual dialogue, giving voice to both traditional and relatively unorthodox approaches. What emerges from these critical but friendly exchanges is a diversity of fruitful and innovative ways of thinking about the nature of divinity and its relationship to evil.
The Problem of Evil Eight Views in Dialogue 1st Table of contents:
1. The State of Play: The Problem of Evil Today
2. Opening I: Reconceptualizing Divinity
3. Opening II: Renewing the Discipline
4. The Dialogues
1. The Problem of Suffering: A Thomistic Approach
2. On Identifying the Problem of Evil and the Possibility of Its Theist Solution
3. Problems of Evil
3.1 Worldviews
3.2 Variety of Worldviews
3.3 Questions about Worldviews
3.4 Assessment of Worldviews
3.5 Three Stages of Assessment
3.6 Data and Established Theory
3.7 Theism and Naturalism (Best Formulations)
3.8 Simplicity
3.9 ‘Evil’
3.10 Internal Defeat
3.11 Comparison
3.12 Concluding Remarks
4. Anti-Theodicy
4.1 From Theodicy to Anti-theodicy
4.2 From God to the Absolute
5. Evil, Feminism, and a Philosophy of Transformation
6. The Problem of Evil for Atheists
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Problem of Systemic Evil for Theists
6.3 Existential Optimism
6.4 The Existential Problem of Systemic Evil for Theists and Atheists
6.5 The Disadvantage of Atheism
6.6 Conclusion
7. A Trajectory of Positions
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Conclusions
8. God and Evil without Theodicy
8.1 Greater Good Theodicy
8.2 God without Anthropomorphism
8.3 The Problem of Evil Redux
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