Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other

• Tác giả: Sami Pihlström
• Ngôn ngữ: English
• ISBN-13: 978-9523690042
• ISBN-13: 978-9523690066
• ISBN-13: 978-9523690073
• ISBN: HUP-2
• Thông tin xuất bản: Helsinki Helsinki University Press 2020
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (223 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 170308
• Chủ đề: 1. Ethics & moral philosophy; 2. Philosophy of religion; 3. Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; 4. Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Tóm tắt

Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a "God's-Eye-View" ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy.