Comparing Three Twentieth-Century Philosophical Antitheodicies

This paper compares three twentieth-century examples of antitheodicist thought in the philosophy of religion (and, more generally, ethics): William James’s pragmatism, D.Z. Phillips’s Wittgensteinianism, and Emmanuel Levinas’s post-Holocaust ethical reflection on suffering. It is argued that all thr...

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Main Author: Sami Pihlström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-12-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/6/4/98