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Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil

Eric J. Silverman (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-04152-8 (ISBN)
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Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This volume features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering, and evil.

Many conflicting strategies for addressing such situations have been proposed for response to such tragedies. Both Stoic acceptance and cathartic lament have been advocated. Embracing skepticism, especially religious skepticism, about the goodness of reality has been one response. While some religious adherents have responded with theodicy, others have claimed that theodicy trivializes the significance of tragedy. Anger, activism, fatalism, prayer, hope, mourning, patience, and simple silence have all been proposed as responses to the tragic. The chapters in this volume explore the patterns, habits, and beliefs that form virtuous responses to tragedy. Virtuous in this context refers to excellent character, including both moral and intellectual character, in response to the tragic.

Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, theology, and ancient philosophy.

Eric J. Silverman is Professor of Philosophy at Christopher Newport University. His interests include ethics, philosophy of religion, and interdisciplinary work in psychology. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of seven books including: Sexual Ethic in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity?, Paradise Understood: New Philosophical Essays About Heaven, and The Supremacy of Love: An Agape-Centered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics.

Introduction Section I: Communal Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil 1. Tragic Lessons in Moral Suffering and Healing 2. Hope for Others as a Good Common Project 3. Grieving as a Virtuous Response to Feminicidio 4. Love Thy "Enemy-Neighbor": Affective Polarization and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Notion of Agape Section II: Individual Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil 5. Virtues that Mitigate the Deprivations of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome 6. Political Injustice and the Limits of Anger as a Response to Tragedy 7. Platonic Sense and Tragic Sensibility 8. Fatal Resignation Section III: Religious Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil 9. The Problem of Mourning 10. Lament as a Virtuous Response to Tragedy 11. The Virtue of Patience, Tragedy, and Theodicy 12. Suffering We Would Choose (So God Would Choose for Us) 13. Spiritual Surrender and Suffering. Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.3.2026
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10 1-041-04152-7 / 1041041527
ISBN-13 978-1-041-04152-8 / 9781041041528
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