Published In

Metanexus

Document Type

Post-Print

Publication Date

1-2008

Subjects

Theodicy, Systems theory, Good and evil

Abstract

The following is a dialog, published in The Global Spiral, January 9, 2008, about the idea of a systems-theoretic 'secular theodicy,' discussed in the author's "Towards an Ontology of Problems," "Understanding lmperfection," and (exemplified in a preliminary way in) "Incompleteness, Negation, and Hazard: On the Precariousness of Systems." The dialog was inspired by Susan Neiman's Evil in Modem Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2002.

Description

This is the author's version of an article that subsequently appeared in Metanexus, January 9, 2008.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16553

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