Dark Matters

ISBN: 9780691226149 Categorii: Diverse, Diverse. An apariție: 2023 Autor: Mara van der Lugt Editură: Princeton University Press Tip copertă: Paperback Număr pagini: 472 Stoc: La comandă

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical traditions of optimism and pessimism arose from early modern debates about the problem of evil, and makes a compelling case for the rediscovery of pessimism as a source for compassion, consolation, and perhaps even hope.


Bringing to life one of the most vibrant eras in the history of philosophy, Mara van der Lugt discusses legendary figures such as Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, and Schopenhauer. She also introduces readers to less familiar names, such as Bayle, King, La Mettrie, and Maupertuis. Van der Lugt describes not only how the earliest optimists and pessimists were deeply concerned with finding an answer to the question of the value of existence that does justice to the reality of human suffering, but also how they were fundamentally divided over what such an answer should look like.

A breathtaking work of intellectual history by one of today's leading scholars, Dark Matters reveals how the crucial moral aim of pessimism is to find a way of speaking about suffering that offers consolation and does justice to the fragility of life.

Limba
Engleza
Autor
Mara van der Lugt
Data Publicarii
2023
Editura
Princeton University Press
Latime
15
Inaltime
23
Grosime
3
Greutate
746
Tip Coperta
Paperback
Nr Pag
472
Subtitlu
Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering
Bic
HPS
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