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Taking evil seriously

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Taking evil seriously/ Sami Pihlstrom.
Author:	Pihlstrom, Sami.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot : : 2014.,
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Good and evil. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137412666 (electronic bk.) :

Taking evil seriously
Pihlstrom, Sami.

Taking evil seriously[electronic resource] /Sami Pihlstrom. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Pivot :2014. - 160 p.

Electronic book text.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Evil and Negativity: Sharpening the Pragmatic Method 2. The Moral Luck, Reward, and Punishment of a Sick Soul 3. The Suffering God and Post-Holocaust Pragmatism 4. A Metaphilosophical Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.

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While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering.While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as a 'positive' examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering. Evil is a shockingly real feature of the world we live in; it cannot be explained away or justified in terms of any theodicy, either religious or secular. The book draws on the tradition of pragmatism, particularly William James, in developing this anti-theodicist argument for taking evil seriously. James's pragmatist approach is critically compared to some other philosophical thematizations of fundamental ethical issues, including Wittgensteinian moral philosophy and Hans Jonas's post-Holocaust ethics. The pragmatic method itself is rearticulated as a philosophical method focusing on negativities such as evil and as a version of post-Kantian transcendental inquiry dealing with the necessary conditions for the possibility of morality.

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Sami Pihlstrom is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and the Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki. He has published widely on pragmatism, the problem of realism, transcendental philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

ISBN: 1137412666 (electronic bk.) :£30.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

559529
Good and evil.

LC Class. No.: BJ1401 / .P54 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 111.84

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