The Philosophy of Religion and Suffering from Natural Evil : Toward a Rearrangement of Theodicean Questions(<Special Issue>Religion and Calamities)

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  • 自然悪の苦しみと宗教哲学 : 神義論的問題の再編成へ向けて(<特集>災禍と宗教)
  • 自然悪の苦しみと宗教哲学 : 神義論的問題の再編成へ向けて
  • シゼンアク ノ クルシミ ト シュウキョウ テツガク : シンギロンテキ モンダイ ノ サイヘンセイ エ ムケテ

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We can divide various meditations on evil (especially, natural evil) in this world between a narrower theodicy that aims to justify God's goodness, and a larger theodicy that protests against the existence of evil. This article considers what resources a larger theodicy should include on philosophy of religion. About natural evils, we do not only humble ourselves, but also we protest and complain. According to the sociology of religion, under these protests and complaints lie a requirement of the meaning of the evil. Michel Henry claims that this meaning of evil should be classified as the outer meaning of evil and the inner one of suffering, which can be inserted into the transcendental structure of one's life. On the other hand, Negri interprets the protest on the outer suffering of evil as the moment of the protest (or rebellion) to the rational measure according to which we take the evil as unjust, and further, as the moment of an ontological becoming of both subject and world which involves a dismeasure which exceeds the rational measure.

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