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Philosophy Good & Evil

The Problem of Evil in Early Modern Philosophy

by (author) Elmar J. Kremer & Michael J. Latzer

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Dec 2001
Category
Good & Evil, Criticism, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802035523
    Publish Date
    Dec 2001
    List Price
    $100.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442682146
    Publish Date
    Nov 2001
    List Price
    $97.00

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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.

About the authors

Elmar J. Kremer is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

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Michael J. Latzer is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Gannon University.

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