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

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA13-20785S" target="_blank" >GA13-20785S: Povaha normativity – ontologie, sémantika, logika</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Sophia

ISSN

0038-1527

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

56

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

NL - Nizozemsko

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

183-205

Kód UT WoS článku

000412893100004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85018710998