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Record Nr.

UNINA9910377435903321

Autore

Pihlström Sami

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Helsinki, : Helsinki University Press, 2020

ISBN

952-369-005-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223)

Disciplina

231/.8

Soggetti

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -

Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Ethics & moral philosophy

Philosophy of religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.