Dark matters : pessimism and the problem of suffering /
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffe...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Langue: | anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2021]
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| Accès en ligne: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1jhvndf |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Philosophy in a minor chord
- The complaint: Bayle and Malebranche on physical evil
- The optics of optimism: Leibniz and King respond to Bayle
- Of hope and consolation: Voltaire and the Deists
- When stoicism meets pessimism: La Mettrie and Maupertuis
- The dispositional problem of evil: David Hume
- The art of suffering: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The failure of theodicy: Immanuel Kant
- The flute-playing pessimist: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Dark matters: pessimism as a moral source