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Comprehensive overview of philosophical approaches to the Problem of Evil and the nature of human suffering, examining how thinkers like Bayle, Leibniz, Kant, and Hume debate whether God’s goodness can be reconciled with evil. They then move through modern philosophical pessimism — from Schopenhauer’s view that suffering is inescapable due to the Will, to von Hartmann’s argument that our beliefs in present, afterlife, or future happiness are illusions. The notes also analyze Nietzsche’...

Comprehensive overview of philosophical approaches to the Problem of Evil and the nature of human suffering, examining how thinkers like Bayle, Leibniz, Kant, and Hume debate whether God’s goodness can be reconciled with evil. They then move through modern philosophical pessimism — from Schopenhauer’s view that suffering is inescapable due to the Will, to von Hartmann’s argument that our beliefs in present, afterlife, or future happiness are illusions. The notes also analyze Nietzsche’...

Comprehensive overview of philosophical approaches to the Problem of Evil and the nature of human suffering, examining how thinkers like Bayle, Leibniz, Kant, and Hume debate whether God’s goodness can be reconciled with evil. They then move through modern philosophical pessimism — from Schopenhauer’s view that suffering is inescapable due to the Will, to von Hartmann’s argument that our beliefs in present, afterlife, or future happiness are illusions. The notes also analyze Nietzsche’...