"Não é no Uno, mas no múltiplo, que respiramos". (2010-2023)
Two Babylonian texts, the Dialogue of Pessimism and Theodicy, show us that the Babylonians thought about belief and doubt, common good and individual interest, and the basic problems of philosophy we find in India, Greece, China, and many human cultures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnj-DCf2EUI Topics: The Babylonian Dialogue Of PessimismThe Master Says He Will & Won'tThe Servant Says… Continue lendo “Babylonian Philosophy: Pessimism & Theodicy” – Eric GERLACH
Justification by Providence is the quixotism of theology.The adjective satanic, which [De Maistre] applied to the French Revolution he might just as well have extended to all events [...] especially the most important one: the Creation.E. M. CIORAN “Nothing is where it belongs”: the refrain of all emigrations, and also the point of departure for… Continue lendo “An Essay On Reactionary Thought”: De Maistre’s divine providentialism vs. Cioran’s atheodicy
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the PhD degree in Political Science, University of Ottawa, 2013 [PDF] Abstract: In this thesis I compare the views of Joseph de Maistre and Fyodor Dostoyevsky with regard to the relation between modernity and the theologico-political problem. I… Continue lendo “Modernity and the theologico-political problem in the thought of Joseph de Maistre and Fyodor Dostoyevsky: A comprehensive comparison” – Alexandru RACU
The Demiurge is the most useful god who ever was.CIORAN, The New Gods (1969) The Demiurge With the exception of some aberrant cases, man does not incline to the good: what god would impel him to do so? Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by… Continue lendo “The Demiurge” – CIORAN
The Wire, 19 February 2017 The claim that the universe is inherently just implies that those who suffer deserve it. The result is, essentially, a theological form of victim-blaming. For example, the American evangelical preacher Pat Robertson explained the 2010 earthquake in Haiti – which killed between 220,000-316,000 people, and injured another 300,000 – as… Continue lendo “Bad Things Happen For a Reason, And Other Idiocies of Theodicy” – Jason BLUM
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