Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other
Pihlström, Sami
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other - Helsinki Helsinki University Press 2020 - 1 electronic resource (223 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
HUP-2 9789523690042; 9789523690066; 9789523690073
10.33134/HUP-2 doi
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Ethics & moral philosophy
Philosophy of religion
pragmatism realism theodicy theodicies antitheodicy antitheodicies evil suffering
Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other - Helsinki Helsinki University Press 2020 - 1 electronic resource (223 p.)
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
HUP-2 9789523690042; 9789523690066; 9789523690073
10.33134/HUP-2 doi
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Ethics & moral philosophy
Philosophy of religion
pragmatism realism theodicy theodicies antitheodicy antitheodicies evil suffering