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In Western philosophical discussions, one often encounters an (implicit or explicit) dis-tinction between evil in a broad and generic sense of innocent suffering, that is, of bad things happening to good people, which raises questions about whether the natural or cosmic order is morally good, evil, or just indifferent; and evil in a narrower sen...
9 lut 2021 · The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction shows how centuries of thinkers — from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre, and Beckett — have tackled the conundrum of the meaning of...
26 lis 2013 · To avoid confusion, it is important to note that there are at least two concepts of evil: a broad concept and a narrow concept. The broad concept picks out any bad state of affairs, wrongful action, or character flaw. The suffering of a toothache is evil in the broad sense as is a harmless lie.
Any philosophical inquiry into how evil affects the meaning of life will therefore have to tackle the question of whether this notion of the absolute primacy of the moral is defensible, and this will be the starting point of the next section.
The urge to make sense of evil ± its origins, nature and indiscriminate presence ± challenges our thinking about the divine, about the meaning of life, and about the scope of history. Numerous and varied explanations regarding the existence of evil are available and the
moral (or immoral) intentions in every philosophy constituted the real germ of life from which the whole plant had grown. Indeed, if one would explain how the abstrusest metaphysical claims of a philosopher really
In Philosophy in a Meaningless Life, I set out to reaffirm the question of the meaning of life in the face of outdated, positivistic instincts, the scientistic and anti-religious sentiment that pervades much of contemporary
