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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476882903321

Autore

Pihlström Sami

Titolo

Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy : on viewing the world by acknowledging the other / / Sami Pihlström

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Helsinki : , : HUP, Helsinki University Press, , 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 pages)

Disciplina

149.2

Soggetti

Realism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the promise of pragmatist philosophy of religion - A pragmatist approach to religious realism, objectivity, and recognition - The pragmatic contextuality of scheme (in)dependence - Pragmatism and critical philosophy - Religious truth, acknowledgment, and diversity - The limits of language and harmony - Beyond the theory-practice dichotomy - Conclusion : meaningful and meaningless suffering.

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.