Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy
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- ISBN 9780802035523
- Weight: 424g
- Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2001
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Hardback
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Many distinct, controvertial issues are to be found within the labyrinthine twists and turns of the problem of evil. For philosophers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centures, evil presented a challenge to the consistency and rationality of the world-picture disclosed by the new way of ideas. In dealing with this challenge, however, philosophers were also concerned with their positions in the theological debates about original sin, free will, and justification that were the legacy of the Protestant Reformation to European intellectual life. Emerging from a conference on the problem of evil in the early modern period held at the University of Toronto in 1999, the papers in this collection represent some of the best original work being done today on the theodicies of such early modern philosophers as Leibniz, Suarez, Spinoza, Malebranche, and Pierre Bayle.
