The Problem of Evil A Reader

by Larrimore, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780631220145
• ISBN10: 0631220143
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-02
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Reader brings together primary sources from philosophy, theology and literature to chart the many and changing ways evil has been approached and understood, and to examine the diverse implications it has had for belief and unbelief. Will fill a major gap in the publishing market. Provides primary source readings for courses on religion and evil. A key issue in religious thought - this book will change the way the subject is taught. Author is one of the brightest young religious philosophers in America.

Author Biography

Mark Larrimore is Assistant Professor of Religion and Preceptor at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study on the ethics of Leibniz's Theodicy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction: Responding to Evils	xiv
How to Use This Book	xxxi
Beginnings	1	(74)
Timaeus	3	(5)
Plato
Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe	8	(3)
Ovid, ``Phaethon''	11	(8)
Seneca, ``On Providence''	19	(4)
Epictetus, Encheiridion	23	(5)
Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heretics	28	(7)
Sextus Empiricus, ``God''	35	(3)
Plotinus, ``Providence: First Treatise''	38	(8)
Lactantius, The Wrath of God	46	(7)
City of God	53	(9)
Augustine
On the Divine Names and Mystical Theology	62	(7)
Pseudo-Dionysius
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy	69	(6)
Before Theodicy	75	(72)
Anselm of Canterbury, On the Fall of the Devil	77	(5)
Hildegard of Bingen, to the congregation of nuns	82	(6)
Guide of the Perplexed	88	(7)
Moses Maimonides
Summa Theologica	95	(8)
Thomas Aquinas
Three liturgies: Stabat mater, a fifteenth-century Sarum, and Dies irae	103	(7)
``Blessed are the poor in spirit''	110	(5)
Meister Eckhart
``Patient Griselda''	115	(8)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Julian of Norwich, Showings	123	(6)
Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ	129	(5)
Prefaces to Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Psalter	134	(6)
Martin Luther
The Institutes of the Christian Religion	140	(5)
John Calvin
``Batter my heart, three-personed God''	145	(2)
John Donne
The Rise of Theodicy	147	(88)
Leviathan	149	(6)
Thomas Hobbes
Paradise Lost	155	(8)
John Milton
Ethics	163	(6)
Baruch Spinoza
The True Intellectual System of the Universe	169	(5)
Ralph Cudworth
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy	174	(5)
Anne Conway
Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion	179	(5)
Nicolas Malebranche
``Manicheans''; Note D	184	(7)
Pierre Bayle
Theodicy	191	(10)
G. W. Leibniz
An Essay on Man	201	(3)
Alexander Pope
Voltaire, ``The Lisbon Earthquake: An Inquiry into the Maxim, `Whatever is, is right'''	204	(6)
``Letter from J.-J. Rousseau to Mr. de Voltaire, August 18, 1756''	210	(6)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dialogues concerning Natural Religion	216	(8)
David Hume
``On the miscarriage of all philosophical trials in theodicy''	224	(11)
Immanuel Kant
Beyond Optimism	235	(64)
An Essay on the Principle of Population	237	(4)
Thomas Robert Malthus
``Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and Related Matters''	241	(7)
F.W.J. Schelling
John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats February 14 to May 8, 1819	248	(3)
``The Philosophical History of the World''	251	(5)
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
``The Tragic''	256	(6)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The World as Will and Representation	262	(7)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Charles Darwin to Asa Gray, May 22, 1860	269	(2)
An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy	271	(6)
John Stuart Mill
The Brothers Karamazov	277	(6)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
On the Genealogy of Morality	283	(8)
Friedrich Nietzsche
``Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord''	291	(2)
Gerard Manley Hopkins
``The Problem of Job''	293	(6)
Josiah Royce
The Twentieth Century	299	(88)
The Varieties of Religious Experience	301	(7)
William James
``A Litany at Atlanta''	308	(4)
W. E. B. Du Bois
``Before Life and After''	312	(1)
Thomas Hardy
Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism	313	(5)
Hermann Cohen
The Future of an Illusion	318	(4)
Sigmund Freud
An Introduction to Metaphysics	322	(5)
Martin Heidegger
``Musee des Beaux Arts''	327	(2)
W. H. Auden
``Animal Pain''	329	(5)
C. S. Lewis
``The Love of God and Affliction''	334	(7)
Simone Weil
Aion	341	(5)
C. G. Jung
The ``Serenity Prayer''	346	(2)
``God and Nothingness''	348	(7)
Karl Barth
``The `Vale of Soul-Making' Theodicy''	355	(7)
John Hick
Is God a White Racist?	362	(3)
William R. Jones
``A Critique of Christian Masochism''	365	(6)
Dorothee Soelle
``Useless Suffering''	371	(10)
Emmanuel Levinas
Women and Evil	381	(6)
Nel Noddings
Index	387	(8)
Scripture Index	395