Titlebook: Kantian Antitheodicy; Philosophical and Li Sami Pihlström,Sari Kivistö Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 God.e

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40883-5God; evil; suffering; morality; free will

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Sami Pihlström,Sari KivistöCombines both literary and philosophical methodologies, in order to examine and confront evil and antitheodicy. Examines and defends a wide range of antitheodicisms, analysing post-Holocaust ethics, W

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Franz Kafka’s .The Trial., Samuel Beckett’s .Waiting for Godot., andGeorge Orwell’s .Nineteen Eighty-Four., are examined in order to cruciallyadvance the philosophical case for antitheodicism. .978-3-319-82209-9978-3-319-40883-5

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Introduction,and philosophical. Generally, . seek a justification, legitimation, and/or excusing of an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent God’s allowing the world to contain evil and suffering. By antitheodicism, Kivistö and Pihlström mean the rejection of any such, or ., theodicies, or better, of the very p

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Suffering and Forgiveness in Kafka and Post-Holocaust Antitheodicism,ions they find unjust. Such protagonists’ experience tells us that there can be no moral order or harmony unless human beings themselves struggle for a better world. This moral resistance to harmonious world-explanations is the heart of antitheodicism. This chapter begins with an analysis of ., conn

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Evil, Absurdity, and Nonsense: Beckettian and Wittgensteinian Reflections,sophers’ work, as well as the kind of absurdity of suffering explored by Samuel Beckett in . (1951). While the general topic of meaningless suffering is a theme running through the entire book, the Wittgensteinian focus on questions of meaning and the explorations of nonsensicality in absurd drama m

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Pragmatism, Suffering, and Truthfulness: From James to Rorty to Orwell,eorge Orwell’s . (1949) turns out to be necessary for serious engagement with the problem of evil and suffering. This context invokes the debates over pragmatist conceptions of truth and neopragmatism exemplified by Richard Rorty’s work, which also contains a controversial reading of Orwell’s famous

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