The present book is an examination of the responses of a number of continental thinkers to the issue of evil (especially the Holocaust) and the suffering caused by it. Of course, the topics of the book are not necessarily limited to the Holocaust, an ...
The present book is an examination of the responses of a number of continental thinkers to the issue of evil (especially the Holocaust) and the suffering caused by it. Of course, the topics of the book are not necessarily limited to the Holocaust, and it can be considered the reaction of these thinkers to any terrible evil. In the first chapter, the author deals with theoretical theodicy (justification of divine justice), first in Anglo-American thinking and then in continental thinking, and notes the ineffectiveness of this thinking. Then, in the continuation of the book, he explains that Jewish and Christian existentialist thinkers (Buber and Marcel, respectively) and Jewish and Christian leftist thinkers, respectively (Ernest Bloch and Johann Baptist Mats) have tried to react to the problem of suffering and evil from another perspective. Of course, the author also involves other thinkers during the discussion. The common point of all these thinkers is that they consider the justification of divine justice in its classical form ineffective. The author tries to show how continental thinkers, beyond the theoretical justification of divine justice, have tried to have a more existential approach to evil and the suffering and, in addition, to put forward suggestions for an active and creative confrontation with evil.
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