TY  - BOOK
AU  - van der Lugt,Mara
TI  - Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering 
SN  - 9780691226156
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - History
KW  - Pessimism
KW  - Suffering
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - A priori and a posteriori
KW  - Ad hominem
KW  - Addiction
KW  - Anecdote
KW  - Anguish
KW  - Anti-imperialism
KW  - Antinatalism
KW  - Antipathy
KW  - Apathy
KW  - Arthur Schopenhauer
KW  - Attributes of God in Christianity
KW  - Better Never to Have Been
KW  - Beyond Good and Evil
KW  - Boredom
KW  - Candide
KW  - Christian mortalism
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Counterintuitive
KW  - Cowardice
KW  - Crisis of faith
KW  - Critique
KW  - Dasein
KW  - David Benatar
KW  - David Hume
KW  - Deism
KW  - Discourses (Meher Baba)
KW  - Divine law
KW  - Eclecticism
KW  - Emanuel Swedenborg
KW  - Equal footing
KW  - Essay
KW  - Ethics in religion
KW  - Evil
KW  - Extortion
KW  - Family resemblance
KW  - Fatalism
KW  - Fideism
KW  - Freud and Philosophy
KW  - Gandhism
KW  - God
KW  - Hard determinism
KW  - Hard problem of consciousness
KW  - Hedonism
KW  - Holism
KW  - Incest
KW  - Indication (medicine)
KW  - Justification (theology)
KW  - Kantianism
KW  - Logical consequence
KW  - Lutheranism
KW  - Make A Difference
KW  - Manichaeism
KW  - Metempsychosis
KW  - Moral evil
KW  - Moral rationalism
KW  - Moral relativism
KW  - Morality
KW  - Natural disaster
KW  - Natural evil
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Nuisance
KW  - Omnibenevolence
KW  - Oppression
KW  - Optimism
KW  - Overreaction
KW  - Peter Wessel Zapffe
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Philosophical methodology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Possible world
KW  - Pride
KW  - Principle of charity
KW  - Problem of evil
KW  - Profession (religious)
KW  - Psychological pain
KW  - Public speaking
KW  - Pure practical reason
KW  - Radical evil
KW  - Religion
KW  - Scholasticism
KW  - Sedition
KW  - Self-help book
KW  - Seriousness
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - Stoicism
KW  - Suicide
KW  - Søren Kierkegaard
KW  - The Constitution of Man
KW  - The Philosopher
KW  - The Problem of Pain
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - Thought
KW  - Torture
KW  - Trolling (fishing)
KW  - Unless
KW  - Untouchability
KW  - We Are Doomed
KW  - Wickedness
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction Philosophy in a Minor Chord --; Chapter 1 The Complaint: Bayle and Malebranche on Physical Evil --; Chapter 2 The Optics of Optimism: Leibniz and King Respond to Bayle --; Chapter 3 Of Hope and Consolation: Voltaire and the Deists --; Chapter 4 When Stoicism Meets Pessimism: La Mettrie and Maupertuis --; Chapter 5 The Dispositional Problem of Evil: David Hume --; Chapter 6 The Art of Suffering: Jean-Jacques Rousseau --; Chapter 7 The Failure of Theodicy: Immanuel Kant --; Chapter 8 The Flute-Playing Pessimist: Arthur Schopenhauer --; Chapter 9 Dark Matters: Pessimism as a Moral Source --; Acknowledgements --; Bibliography --; Main Primary Sources --; Other Primary Sources --; Secondary and Modern Sources --; Index; restricted access
N2  - An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn 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 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 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 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
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