Evil and Intelligibility : : A Grammatical Metacritique of the Problem of Evil.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book
• VerfasserIn: Snellman, Lauri,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (427 pages)

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Tables and Diagrams -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 The Presuppositions of the Problem of Evil -- 2.1 Defining the Problems of Evil and Theodicism -- 2.2 Evil and Dualism in Modern Thought -- 2.2.1 Footnotes to Plato: Dualism and the Background for the Problem of Evil -- 2.2.2 The Problem of Evil as a Central Problem of Modern Thought -- 2.2.3 The Presuppositions of Theodicy in the Modern Debate -- 2.2.4 The Dualisms behind the Problem of Evil -- 2.2.4.1 The Modern Concept of the Fact -- 2.2.4.2 Appearances, Meanings, Real Facts and Values -- 2.2.4.3 The Principle of Sufficient Reason -- 2.2.5 The General Argument from Evil -- 2.3 Theism, Atheism and the Presuppositions of Theodicy -- 2.3.1 Leibnizian Theism as a Solution to the Problem of Intelligibility -- 2.3.2 Theodicism in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion -- 2.3.2.1 Mackie and Atheistic Analytic Theodicism -- 2.3.2.2 William Rowe and Divine Goodness -- 2.3.2.3 Plantinga on Omnipotence and Freedom -- 2.3.3 The Neo-Leibnizian Nature of the Current Debate -- Chapter 3 Metaphysics, Grammar and Evil: in Search of a Method -- 3.1 The Project of Antitheodicy -- 3.1.1 Antitheodicies: Conceptual, Moral and Moralistic -- 3.1.2 Antitheodicy and the Critique of Reason -- 3.1.2.1 Kantian Antitheodicism -- 3.1.2.2 Jamesian Antitheodicism -- 3.1.2.3 Hamannian Antitheodicism -- 3.1.3 Some Preliminary Arguments for Hamannian Antitheodicism -- 3.2 Philosophical Grammar and Grammatical Metacritique -- 3.2.1 Insights from Wittgenstein -- 3.2.2 Insights from Hamann -- 3.2.3 An Overview of Philosophical Grammar -- 3.3 The Metaphysical Modelling Debate in Analytic Philosophy -- 3.3.1 Matter, Form and Metaphysics -- 3.3.2 Metaphysics in the Good Company of Science? -- 3.3.3 The Antinomy of Metaphysical Realism.

Chapter 4 Language-Games, Categories and Practical Intelligibility -- 4.1 Language-Games: a Definition and Examples -- 4.2 The Practical Objectivity of Concepts and Models -- 4.2.1 Language-Games, Rules and the Possibility of Representation -- 4.2.2 Modelling, Morphisms and Hermeneutics -- 4.2.3 Realism, Idealism and the "Practical Matter-of-Factness" of Language -- 4.2.4 The Genealogical Priority of Language-Games -- 4.3 Language-Games and Categories for Being Qua Being -- 4.3.1 Language-Games for the Concept of Being -- 4.3.2 Discourse Possibilities for Seeking and Finding -- 4.3.2.1 Logical Forms and the Categories of Language Use -- 4.3.2.2 Categories as Types of Encountering Objects -- 4.3.2.3 Categories as Types of Concepts and Types of Objects in Encounters -- 4.3.3 Categories, Being and the Models of Metaphysics -- 4.4 The Objectivity of Metaphysical Concepts and Models -- Chapter 5 Facts, Meanings and the Logic of Systemic Identification -- 5.1 Identification and Grammar -- 5.1.1 The Logic of Identification and Categories -- 5.1.2 Functions, Systems, Elements and Institutions for Identification -- 5.1.3 The Location of Individuals in Relationships and Identification -- 5.2 The Intertwining of Facts and Meanings -- 5.2.1 Seeing Facts as Meaningful in Language-Games -- 5.2.2 Facts, Meanings and Objects in Their Systemic Context -- 5.2.3 Some Examples and a Summary -- Chapter 6 The Principle of Reason and the Question of Intelligibility -- 6.1 The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Reasons for It -- 6.1.1 Definitions and Consequences of the Principle of Reason -- 6.1.2 Reasons for and against the Principle of Reason -- 6.1.3 The Principle of the Ground of Metaphysics and the Problem of Evil -- 6.2 Practical and Relational Intelligibility as a Critique of the PSR -- 6.2.1 The Ambiguity of the Principle and the Plurality of Reasons.

6.2.2 The Location of Reasons in Language-Games and Relationships -- 6.2.2.1 The Ground of "Reasons" and "Grounds" in Language-Games -- 6.2.2.2 The Grounds for Logical Spaces and Essences -- 6.2.2.3 The Contingency of Necessity -- 6.2.3 The Question of Reason and the Question of God -- Chapter 7 The Grammar of Worldviews and the Fallacies of Theodicism -- 7.1 Narratives, Virtues and Worldviews -- 7.1.1 Facts, Virtues and Narrative Identification -- 7.1.2 Humanistic Meaningfulness: Moral Responsibility, Virtue and Tragedy -- 7.1.3 Virtues and the Religious Concept of Salvation -- 7.2 Theological Grammar, Divine Goodness and Omnipotence -- 7.2.1 Theological Grammar and the Logic of Scripture -- 7.2.2 Theological Grammar, Goodness and Omnipotence -- 7.3 Biblical Grammar and the Fallacies of Theodicism -- 7.3.1 The Gospels and the Redemptive Sovereignty of God -- 7.3.2 Metaphors in the Book of Job and the Fallacies of Theodicism -- 7.3.2.1 Metaphors for God and Man in the Book of Job -- 7.3.2.2 The Speeches of Job and Atheistic Theodicism -- 7.3.2.3 The Speeches of Job's "Friends" and Theistic Theodicism -- 7.3.2.4 The Speech of God and a New Grammar for "God" -- Chapter 8 Why the Argument from Evil Is Fallacious -- Chapter 9 Conclusion: the Problem of Evil and the Problem of Intelligibility -- Bibliography -- Index.