The problem of evil a reader / edited by Mark Larrimore.

Other author Larrimore, Mark J. (Mark Joseph), 1966-
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
Descriptionxxxii, 397 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Timaeus / Plato -- On the nature of the universe / Lucretius -- Phaethon / Ovid -- On providence / Seneca -- Encheiridion / Epictetus -- Against heretics / Irenaeus of Lyons -- God / Sextus Empiricus -- Providence : first treatise / Plotinus -- The wrath of God / Lactantius -- City of God / Augustine -- On the divine names and mystical theology / Pseudo-Dionysius -- The consolation of philosophy / Boethius -- On the fall of the devil / Anselm of Canterbury -- To the congregation of nuns / Hildegard of Bingen -- Guide of the perplexed / Moses Maimonides -- Summa theologica / Thomas Aquinas -- Three liturgies : Stabat mater, a 15th-century Sarum, and Dies irae -- Blessed are the poor in spirit / Meister Eckhart -- Patient Griselda / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Showings / Julian of Norwich -- The imitation of Christ / Thomas à Kempis -- Prefaces to Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Psalter / Martin Luther -- The institutes of the Christian religion / John Calvin -- Batter my heart, three-personed God / John Donne -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Ethics / Baruch Spinoza -- The true intellectual system of the universe / Ralph Cudworth -- Principles of the most ancient and modern philosophy / Anne Conway -- Dialogues on metaphysics and on religion / Nicolas Malebranche -- Manicheans : note D / Pierre Bayle -- Theodicy / G.W. Leibnitz -- An essay on man / Alexander Pope -- The Lisbon earthquake : an inquiry into the maxim, 'Whatever is, is right' / Voltaire -- Letter from J.-J. Rousseau to Mr. de Voltaire, August 18, 1756 -- Dialogues concerning natural religion / David Hume -- On the miscarriage of all philosophical trials in theodicy / Immanuel Kant -- An essay on the principle of population / Thomas Robert Malhus -- Philosophical investigations into the essence of human freedom and related matters / F.W. Schelling -- John Keats to George & Georgiana Keats, 14 February-8 May 1819 -- The philosophical history of the world / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- The tragic / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- The world as will and representation / Arthur Schopenhauer -- Charles Darwin, to Asa Gray, 22 May 1860 -- An examination of Sir William Hamiltons philosophy / John Stuart Mill -- The brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- On the genealogy of morality / Freidrich Neitsche -- Thou art indeed just, Lord / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- The problem of Job / Josiah Royce -- The varieties of religious experience / William James -- A litany at Atlanta / W.E.B. DuBois -- Before life and after / Thomas Hardy -- Religion of reason out of the sources of Judaism / Hermann Cohen -- The future of an illusion / Sigmund Freud -- An introduction to metaphysics / Martin Heidegger -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- Animal pain / C.S. Lewis -- The love of God and affliction / Simone Weil -- Aion / C.G. Jung -- The serenity prayer -- God and nothingness / Karl Barth -- The vale of soul-making theodicy / John Hick -- Is God a white racist? / William Jones -- A critique of Christian masochism / Dorothee Soelle -- Useless suffering / Emmanuel Levinas -- Women and evil / Nel Noddings.
Abstract The "problem of evil" is a subject of perennial interest to philosophers of religion and theologians, but research has barely scratched the surface of the complex history of Western responses to this challenge. This reader brings together primary sources from philosophy, theology, and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse implications it has had for belief and unbelief. Uncovering forgotten but still powerful arguments and approaches, the Reader provides both an historical and contemporary examination of the practical and theoretical challenges that evil poses to faith, reason, and practice. This fresh, lively, and much-needed new approach to the "problem of evil" transcends the narrow approach to the philosophy of religion as currently practiced, and will change the way the subject is taught, received, and understood.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 00009180
ISBN0631220135 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780631220138 (alk. paper)
ISBN0631220143 (pbk.)
ISBN9780631220145 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks BL216 .P76 2001 ✔ Available Place Hold