Misunderstanding the Talk(s) of the Divine. Theodicy in the Wittgensteinian Tradition

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-017-0600-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-017-0600-2</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-017-0600-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11841-017-0600-2</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Misunderstanding the Talk(s) of the Divine. Theodicy in the Wittgensteinian Tradition

Original language description

The paper discusses the unique approach to the problem of evil employed by the Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion and ethics that is primarily represented by D. Z. Phillips. Unlike traditional solutions to the problem, Phillips' solution consists in questioning its meaningfulness-he attacks the very ideas of God's omnipotence, of His perfect goodness and of the need to 'calculate' God's goodness against the evil within the world. A possible weakness of Phillips' approach is his unreflected use of what he calls 'our religious language', against which he measures the meaningfulness of theodical conceptions. He apparently underestimates both the heterogeneity of the 'ours' and how philosophical ideas pervade and inform the actual practice. On the other hand, Phillips rightly identifies the fact that some theodical conceptions, if understood as general doctrines, commit the sin of insensitivity (cruelty) and do not pay appropriate respect to human suffering. The reason is that they neglect the seriousness and importance of the difference between issuing the theodical accounts in the first person (making sense of one's own situation) and in the third person. He may, however, thereby accuse theodicies of failing in a task that theodicists never intended to undertake. Possible problems are also involved in Phillips' use of the Holocaust as the central discussion example.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-20785S" target="_blank" >GA13-20785S: The nature of the normative – ontology, semantics, logic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sophia

ISSN

0038-1527

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

56

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

183-205

UT code for WoS article

000412893100004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85018710998