Evil and Intelligibility : A Grammatical Metacritique of the Problem of Evil /

Evil and Intelligibility : A Grammatical Metacritique of the Problem of Evil /

This book develops a grammatical method for our underlying presuppositions which can help us unravel the problem of evil. The problem essentially rests on a dualism between fact and meaning. Evil and Intelligibility provides an examination of the grammar of being and of the intelligibility of the wo...

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Main Author: Snellman, Lauri (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 379.

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Good and evil > Religious aspects.
Good and evil.
Suffering > Religious aspects.

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Call Number: BJ1401

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Diagrams
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Presuppositions of the Problem of Evil
  • 2.1 Defining the Problems of Evil and Theodicism
  • 2.2 Evil and Dualism in Modern Thought
  • 2.2.1 Footnotes to Plato: Dualism and the Background for the Problem of Evil
  • 2.2.2 The Problem of Evil as a Central Problem of Modern Thought
  • 2.2.3 The Presuppositions of Theodicy in the Modern Debate
  • 2.2.4 The Dualisms behind the Problem of Evil
  • 2.2.4.1 The Modern Concept of the Fact
  • 2.2.4.2 Appearances, Meanings, Real Facts and Values
  • 2.2.4.3 The Principle of Sufficient Reason
  • 2.2.5 The General Argument from Evil
  • 2.3 Theism, Atheism and the Presuppositions of Theodicy
  • 2.3.1 Leibnizian Theism as a Solution to the Problem of Intelligibility
  • 2.3.2 Theodicism in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
  • 2.3.2.1 Mackie and Atheistic Analytic Theodicism
  • 2.3.2.2 William Rowe and Divine Goodness
  • 2.3.2.3 Plantinga on Omnipotence and Freedom
  • 2.3.3 The Neo-Leibnizian Nature of the Current Debate
  • 3 Metaphysics, Grammar and Evil: In Search of a Method
  • 3.1 The Project of Antitheodicy
  • 3.1.1 Antitheodicies: Conceptual, Moral and Moralistic
  • 3.1.2 Antitheodicy and the Critique of Reason
  • 3.1.2.1 Kantian Antitheodicism
  • 3.1.2.2 Jamesian Antitheodicism
  • 3.1.2.3 Hamannian Antitheodicism
  • 3.1.3 Some Preliminary Arguments for Hamannian Antitheodicism
  • 3.2 Philosophical Grammar and Grammatical Metacritique
  • 3.2.1 Insights from Wittgenstein
  • 3.2.2 Insights from Hamann
  • 3.2.3 An Overview of Philosophical Grammar
  • 3.3 The Metaphysical Modelling Debate in Analytic Philosophy
  • 3.3.1 Matter, Form and Metaphysics
  • 3.3.2 Metaphysics in the Good Company of Science?
  • 3.3.3 The Antinomy of Metaphysical Realism
  • 4 Language-Games, Categories and Practical Intelligibility
  • 4.1 Language-Games: A Definition and Examples
  • 4.2 The Practical Objectivity of Concepts and Models
  • 4.2.1 Language-Games, Rules and the Possibility of Representation
  • 4.2.2 Modelling, Morphisms and Hermeneutics
  • 4.2.3 Realism, Idealism and the "Practical Matter-of-Factness" of Language
  • 4.2.4 The Genealogical Priority of Language-Games
  • 4.3 Language-Games and Categories for Being Qua Being
  • 4.3.1 Language-Games for the Concept of Being
  • 4.3.2 Discourse Possibilities for Seeking and Finding
  • 4.3.2.1 Logical Forms and the Categories of Language Use
  • 4.3.2.2 Categories as Types of Encountering Objects
  • 4.3.2.3 Categories as Types of Concepts and Types of Objects in Encounters
  • 4.3.3 Categories, being and the Models of Metaphysics
  • 4.4 The Objectivity of Metaphysical Concepts and Models
  • 5 Facts, Meanings and the Logic of Systemic Identification
  • 5.1 Identification and Grammar
  • 5.1.1 The Logic of Identification and Categories
  • 5.1.2 Functions, Systems, Elements and Institutions for Identification
  • 5.1.3 The Location of Individuals in Relationships and Identification
  • 5.2 The Intertwining of Facts and Meanings
  • 5.2.1 Seeing Facts as Meaningful in Language-Games
  • 5.2.2 Facts, Meanings and Objects in Their Systemic Context
  • 5.2.3 Some Examples and a Summary
  • 6 The Principle of Reason and the Question of Intelligibility
  • 6.1 The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Reasons for It
  • 6.1.1 Definitions and Consequences of the Principle of Reason
  • 6.1.2 Reasons for and against the Principle of Reason
  • 6.1.3 The Principle of the Ground of Metaphysics and the Problem of Evil
  • 6.2 Practical and Relational Intelligibility as a Critique of the psr
  • 6.2.1 The Ambiguity of the Principle and the Plurality of Reasons
  • 6.2.2 The Location of Reasons in Language-Games and Relationships
  • 6.2.2.1 The Ground of "Reasons" and "Grounds" in Language-Games
  • 6.2.2.2 The Grounds for Logical Spaces and Essences
  • 6.2.2.3 The Contingency of Necessity
  • 6.2.3 The Question of Reason and the Question of God
  • 7 The Grammar of Worldviews and the Fallacies of Theodicism
  • 7.1 Narratives, Virtues and Worldviews
  • 7.1.1 Facts, Virtues and Narrative Identification
  • 7.1.2 Humanistic Meaningfulness: Moral Responsibility, Virtue and Tragedy
  • 7.1.3 Virtues and the Religious Concept of Salvation
  • 7.2 Theological Grammar, Divine Goodness and Omnipotence
  • 7.2.1 Theological Grammar and the Logic of Scripture
  • 7.2.2 Theological Grammar, Goodness and Omnipotence
  • 7.3 Biblical Grammar and the Fallacies of Theodicism
  • 7.3.1 The Gospels and the Redemptive Sovereignty of God
  • 7.3.2 Metaphors in the Book of Job and the Fallacies of Theodicism
  • 7.3.2.1 Metaphors for God and Man in the Book of Job
  • 7.3.2.2 The Speeches of Job and Atheistic Theodicism
  • 7.3.2.3 The Speeches of Job's "Friends" and Theistic Theodicism
  • 6.3.2.4 The Speech of God and a New Grammar for "God"
  • 8 Why the Argument from Evil Is Fallacious
  • 9 Conclusion: The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Intelligibility
  • Bibliography
  • Index.