Sangam: A Confluence of Knowledge Streams

Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy

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dc.creator Pihlström, Sami
dc.date 2021-02-10T13:40:36Z
dc.date 2021-02-10T13:40:36Z
dc.date 2020
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T21:31:01Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T21:31:01Z
dc.identifier 1007793
dc.identifier http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22393
dc.identifier 44563
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30342
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22393/1/pragmatic-realism-religious-truth-and-antitheodicy.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/247757
dc.description Both as a traditional theological issue and in its broader secular varieties, theodicy remains a problem in the philosophy of religion. In this book, Professor Sami Pihlström provides a novel critical reassessment of the theodicy discourse addressing the problem of evil and suffering. He develops an antitheodicist view, arguing that theodicies seeking to render apparently meaningless suffering meaningful or justified from a “God’s-Eye-View” ultimately rely on metaphysical realism failing to recognize the individual perspective of the sufferer. Pihlström thus shows that a pragmatist approach to the realism issue in the philosophy of religion is a vital starting point for a re-evaluation of the problem of theodicy.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Helsinki University Press
dc.rights open access
dc.subject pragmatism
dc.subject realism
dc.subject theodicy
dc.subject theodicies
dc.subject antitheodicy
dc.subject antitheodicies
dc.subject evil
dc.subject suffering
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPC History of Western philosophy::HPCF Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPJ Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPQ Ethics & moral philosophy
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion
dc.title Pragmatic Realism, Religious Truth, and Antitheodicy
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9789523690042; 9789523690066; 9789523690073
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.33134/HUP-2
dc.licenseCondition open access
dc.licenseCondition n/a
dc.identifierdoi 10.33134/HUP-2
dc.relationisPublishedBy cf5d0b3e-caff-497f-94d0-292cc4b4fce2
dc.relationisbn 9789523690042; 9789523690066; 9789523690073
dc.pages 223
dc.placepublication Helsinki


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