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

Pihlstrom, Sami

ISBN 10: 9523690043 / ISBN 13: 9789523690042

Verlag: Helsinki University Press 2020-02, 2020

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6666-IUK-9789523690042

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy: On Viewing the World by Acknowledging the Other
• Verlag: Helsinki University Press 2020-02
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 9523690043
• ISBN-13: 9789523690042
• Einband: PF
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor of Philosophy of Religion since 2014. For cv and a full list of publications, see https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/persons/sami-pihlstr%C3%B6m.