Horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in an ethically perfect God. To home in on these challenges, I construct an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrors are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit (i.e., a benefit that does not avert a still greater harm) or for harm avoidance. I then bring the framework and the moral valuations confirmed by this casuistry to bear on the project of theodicy. I construct four analogous structures – one for each case – and identify examples of each structure in theodicies in contemporary philosophy of religion. I summarize each theodicy and evaluate whether it is structurally promising with respect to horrendous evils. That is, if the proposed interconnected set of facts and reasons were true, would God be ethically in the clear? My initial conclusions impugn the dominant structural approach of depicting God as causing or permitting horrors in individual lives for the sake of some merely pure benefit. This approach is insensitive to relevant asymmetries in the justificatory demands made by horrendous and non-horrendous evil and in the justificatory work done by averting harm and bestowing pure benefit. I next argue that the structurally promising theodicies I have identified are implausible due to their overestimation of the extent to which finite human agents can bear primary responsibility for horrendous evils and their underestimation of the importance for theodicy of being consonant with a broadly Darwinian approach to evolutionary theory. The project of theodicy is in trouble. The second half of my thesis develops an approach to theodicy that falls outside my proffered taxonomy. Following a suggestion of Leibniz, Robert Adams has argued that theodicy can be aided by the insight that almost all of the evil of the actual world is metaphysically necessary for the community of actual world inhabitants to be comprised of the specific individuals who comprise it. Beginning with this insight, I develop (what I term) Non-Identity Theodicy. It suggests that God allows the evil he does in order to create and love the specific individuals comprising the community of inhabitants of the actual world. This approach to theodicy is unique because the justifying good recommended is neither harm-aversion nor pure benefit. It is not a good that betters the lives of individual human persons (for they wouldn’t exist otherwise), but it is the individual human persons themselves. In order to aim successfully at the creation of particular individuals, however, God would need a control of history so complete that it might be argued to be inconsistent with beliefs about human free will that are important to some theologies. I construct a second version of Non-Identity Theodicy designed to avoid this problem by considering whether God’s justifying motivation for allowing the evil of this world could be his aiming for beings of our type, even if it could not be his aiming for particular individuals. I suggest that God would be interested in loving those he creates under various descriptions (e.g., biological, psychological, and narrative descriptions), and argue that a horror-prone environment is necessary for us to be the type of being we are under each of the descriptions. I assess the structural promise and plausibility of Non-Identity Theodicy. In order to do so, I engage with Derek Parfit’s non-identity problem and with some influential assumptions in the ethics of procreation literature. I end by recapping what I take to be the key areas of overemphasis and under-emphasis in contemporary theodicy.

O problema do mal é crucial para o campo da comunicação e, na construção noticiosa, apresenta um importante papel epistemológico na definição dos valores-notícia. Isso pode ser postulado desde o nascimento da história do jornalismo. Aventa-se aqui a hipótese de que ao nos comunicarmos, a primeira função que desejamos executar é a transmissão dos valores negativos; comunicamos primeiro aquilo que é o mal (a tragédia, a ameaça, a morte, etc) e só depois confabulamos a respeito do resto, pois que o mal implica em uma transformação direta do cotidiano. O mal, portanto, passa na dianteira em tudo aquilo que tange a representação dos fatos, pois que há uma dissimetria acerca dos valores da vida. Essa fisionomia recôndita da comunicação humana, que permanece no emaranhado de dados subjetivos que comunicamos uns com os outros, essa expressa necessidade de subentender o negativo na transmissão dos fatos, é a epistemologia conjunta do campo comunicacional e da notícia como um todo. A necessidade da comunicação humana em transmitir o mal desemboca na construção da outra - a notícia. Surge então uma nova hipótese epistemológica para o campo da comunicação por meio da notícia. / The problem of evil is crucial to the field of communication. It presents an important role in the definition of news-value regarding the \"construction\" of the news. Such an affirmation can be postulated since the birth of journalism\'s history. This dissertation presents the hypothesis that when we communicate the first function we want to execute is the transmission of negative values; firstly, we communicate what is evil (a tragedy, a threat, a death, etc) and only later we communicate the rest, because evil implies in a direct transformation of our daily routine. Evil, therefore, comes ahead in everything dealing with the representation of the facts, because there is an asymmetry regarding the values of life. This physiognomy of human communication lies in the entangled amount of subjective data we communicate to each other. This necessity to imply evil in the transmission of facts is the conjoint epistemology of the field of communication and news as a whole. The necessity of human communication in conveying evil results in the formation of news as we know it. Consequently, an innovative epistemological hypothesis comes to the field of communication through the news.

Submitted by MARCIA ROVADOSCHI (marciar@unifra.br) on 2018-08-22T17:59:39Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_IsisMoraesZanardi.pdf: 2148848 bytes, checksum: fc31f42428a26dc5719128da0cba2520 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-22T17:59:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Dissertacao_IsisMoraesZanardi.pdf: 2148848 bytes, checksum: fc31f42428a26dc5719128da0cba2520 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-05 / This paper discusses the importance of the teaching of Humanities and the implications of its abandonment, as an occurrence of new manifestations of atrocities. This is to show that the emptying of interest in teaching Humanities could affect the basic structure of the democratic society and the Constitution of a critical-reflective and ethical citizen-politician as well as culminating in an empty process of thought and inability to take responsibility for their actions. To do such, the methodology began in a review of the main works of Hannah Arendt (1906-1965) and other authors who address such issues. In order to analyze the gathered data, it was used as Laurence Bardin’s content analysis (2016) which aims to analyze data through a quali-quantitative method and later producing inferences about what is being analyzed, with the possibility of questioning and verifying wheter the data collected indicate what it proposes to investigate, that is, if the textbooks provided by the national plan of the Textbook (PNLD) are able, as educational support, to discuss the ciziten formation concepts and the human person in the disciplines of Philosophy, Sociology and History. This dissertation is organized from a theoretical framework upon the human formation, the inability of thinking and the teaching of Humanities. Initially, it examines the theme of human formation in relation to the inability of thinking, making considerations about the problem of evil in according to Hannah Arendt. From the analysis of the Origins of Totalitarianism, from 1951, and Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil, from 1963, it is intended to reflect the mechanisms that produce numbness in the ability of thinking regarding the need of the human formation. With such analysis, it can be perceived that the problem of evil takes not only a radical bias, but also a possibility of a complete destruction of the human, caused by the inability to put oneself in the place of the Other, hence not seeing it as a means in itself, but only means to an end, that is, such problem transforms the human being in a superfluous one. The analysis Eichmann’s case, Arendt realized that the defendant acted banally, manifesting his inability to think, therefore, making possible the normalization of insensibility towards the different. The banality of evil implies the inability to think, a continuous threat to the human formation. The analysis of the textbooks were intended to introduce the discussion concerning the support given to students that while checking, were flawed when it comes to building the human being, as a being who needs and deserves a reflexive training, with the aim of avoiding the trivialization of evil, i.e., empty of thought and the inability to think and judge. Finally, moving towards the final considerations related to education as a process of formation in the political dimension, it is about transforming information in knowledge, and knowledge in wisdom so there won't be any noises in the formation of the integrity of the ethical-political commitment in the shaping of future citizens. / Este trabalho discute a importância do ensino de humanidades e as implicações do seu abandono, como ocorrência de novas manifestações de barbáries. Trata-se de mostrar que o esvaziamento do interesse pelo ensino das humanidades poderá afetar a estrutura basilar da sociedade democrática, a constituição de um cidadão crítico-reflexivo e ético-político e culminar com um processo de vazio de pensamento e incapacidade de responsabilizar-se por seus atos. A metodologia adotada partiu, inicialmente, de uma revisão bibliográfica das principais obras de Hannah Arendt (1906-1965) e de outros autores que versam sobre esta problemática, posteriormente, para tratar dos dados a serem analisados, foi utilizado como método a análise de conteúdo proposto por Laurence Bardin (2016), que visa analisar dados, por meio quali-quantitativo e possibilita inferências acerca do que está sendo analisado, com a possibilidade de questionamentos e verificar que os dados coletados indicam ou não o que se propunha a investigar, isto é, se os livros didáticos disponibilizados pelo Plano Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD) estão aptos, como suporte educacional, para se discutir os conceitos formadores do cidadão e da pessoa humana nas disciplinas de Filosofia, Sociologia e História. A dissertação está organizada desde uma revisão teórica sobre a formação humana, a incapacidade de pensar e o ensino de humanidades. Inicialmente, examina-se o tema da formação humana conectado à incapacidade de pensar, tecendo considerações sobre o problema do mal no pensamento de Hannah Arendt. A partir da análise de Origens do Totalitarismo, de 1951, e de Eichmann em Jerusalém: um relato sobre a banalidade do mal, de 1963, pretende-se refletir acerca dos mecanismos que produzem o adormecimento da capacidade de pensar frente à necessidade da formação humana. Mediante essa análise, se perceberá que o problema do mal assume um viés não apenas radical, mas uma possibilidade de destruição completa do humano, proporcionado pela incapacidade de colocar-se no lugar do Outro e vê-lo não mais como um fim em si mesmo, mas apenas meios para um fim, ou seja, transforma o ser humano em um ser supérfluo. Na análise do caso Eichmann, Arendt percebeu que o réu agia banalmente, manifestando sua incapacidade de pensar, o que tornou possível a normalização da insensibilidade frente o diferente. A banalidade do mal implica na incapacidade de pensar, uma ameaça sempre constante à formação humana. As análises dos livros didáticos tiveram como intuito apresentar a discussão referente ao suporte dado aos educandos, que ao verificar, apresentaram-se falhos ao que se refere a construção do ser humano, enquanto um ser que precisa e merece uma formação reflexiva, com o objetivo de evitar a banalização do mal, ou seja, o vazio de pensamento e a incapacidade de pensar e julgar. Por fim, encaminha-se para as considerações finais que ao que compete a educação como processo de formação na dimensão política, trata-se de transformar as informações em conhecimento, e juntamente, conhecimento em sapiência, para que não ocorra ruídos na formação da integridade do compromisso ético-político na formação do futuro cidadão.

[pt] O problema do mal é algo que, infelizmente, está presente na história da humanidade e que afeta o ser humano, independente de sua crença, religião ou cultura. Aliado a isso, podemos considerar o mal como a ferida aberta da teologia e a rocha do ateísmo. No entanto, apesar de sua imbatível presença, esse problema precisa ser combatido através de uma práxis cristã responsável, coerente e obstinada. Dito isto, esta pesquisa, através de uma revisão bibliográfica, tem por objetivo propor uma reflexão coerente e relevante sobre o problema do mal e a presença de um Deus amoroso e bondoso. Sendo assim, para concatenar esses dois fatos, que aparentemente parecem contraditórios, recorreremos à teologia do teólogo alemão Jürgen Moltmann como uma proposta de resistência diante do problema do mal. Para isso, iniciaremos esta pesquisa refletindo sobre o problema do mal numa perspectiva filosófica e teológica cristã, já que o ser humano sempre buscou uma solução racional e/ou teológica para esse problema. Em seguida, nos perguntaremos sobre o lugar de Deus no sofrimento, apresentando a teologia moltmanniana a partir teobiografia do nosso autor, passando pelas teologias da esperança e da cruz, chegando ao exercício da justiça de Deus. Depois dessa etapa, chegaremos a pergunta sobre o lugar do ser humano diante do mal e como ele deve agir na sociedade a partir da teologia moltmanniana. Assim, esperamos que essa reflexão produza um sentimento de inconformidade, resistência e denúncia do ser humano em relação à quantidade de mal e sofrimento experimentados pela sociedade. / [en] The problem of evil is something that, unfortunately, is present in the history of humanity and that affects human beings, regardless of their belief, religion or culture. Allied to this, we can consider evil as the open wound of theology and the rock of atheism. However, despite its unbeatable presence, this problem needs to be tackled through responsible, coherent and obstinate Christian praxis. That said, this research, through a literature review, aims to propose a coherent and relevant reflection on the problem of evil and the presence of a loving and kind God. Therefore, to concatenate these two facts, which apparently seem contradictory, we will resort to the theology of the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann as a proposal of resistance in the face of the problem of evil. For this, we will start this research reflecting on the problem of evil in a Christian philosophical and theological perspective, since the human being has always sought a rational and/or theological solution to this problem. Next, we will ask ourselves about the place of God in suffering, presenting the Moltmannian theology from the theobiography of our author, passing through the theologies of hope and the cross, arriving at the exercise of God s justice. After this stage, we will come to the question about the place of human beings in the face of evil and how they should act in society based on Moltmannian theology. Thus, we hope that this reflection produces a feeling of nonconformity, resistance and denunciation of the human being in relation to the amount of evil and suffering experienced by society.

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Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-02-19T12:43:29Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1245396 bytes, checksum: a1ecc307325da2e0c864335f93e5799b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-19T12:43:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1245396 bytes, checksum: a1ecc307325da2e0c864335f93e5799b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-16 / This thesis has as its goal to study the problem of evil through literature with the aid of the literary philosophical hermeneutics. In order to develop this theme, in first place, we seek to localize this study within the religion studies. We propose that hermeneutics can be a mediator among philosophy, theology, religion studies, and their respective approaches to religion. Next, we present exemplary how the discussions of philosophy, theology, and religion studies occur inside literature. We show also, briefly, how the problem of evil is placed as a theme of interest for philosophy and theology. At the end of this part, we present C. S. Lewis, the author whose work Out of the Silent Planet is the object of our study, and we expose the methodology of this thesis. In the second chapter, we discuss panoramically the problem of evil in philosophy and theology. Then, we present a panel with the major studies that examine the interface between the problem of evil and the works of C. S. Lewis. At the end of the chapter, we list the main categories/aspects of the problem of evil which are articulated in the apologetic approach of Lewis in The Problem of Pain, and that echoes in the fictional narrative of our object of study. The main categories/aspects of the problem of evil, which relate to the first volume of the Space Trilogy are: divine omnipotence, the fall of man, the human pain and the animal pain. In order to study the problem of evil in the literature, we seek in the literary philosophical hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur a model of analysis. We abstract from the work Time and Narrative the Ricoeurian triple mímesis as an itinerary for the study of Out of the Silent Planet. At last, we apply the resulting model to the analysis of the first volume of the C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy. In mímesis I, we study the fiction environment and the characters of the story. In mímesis II, we locate the chapter in the work where the narrative can be seen as a whole. Then, we describe how the categories/aspects of the problem of evil are articulated in this part of Out of the Silent Planet, we verify how the narrative shares elements of the literature body of the time in which it was produced, and how it breaks from this tradition. In mímesis III, we approach the values and the ethical practical implications that can be verified in the reading of the book. C. S. Lewis proposes in his narrative a theodicy from a theist Christian standpoint, using fiction to transmit his way of understanding the problem of evil and its implications. / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo estudar o problema do mal através da literatura com o auxílio da hermenêutica filosófica literária. Para desenvolver esse tema, em primeiro lugar, buscamos localizar este estudo dentro das ciências das religiões. Propomos que a hermenêutica pode ser uma mediadora entre filosofia, teologia, ciências das religiões e suas respectivas abordagens à religião. Depois, apresentamos exemplarmente como as discussões da filosofia, da teologia e das ciências das religiões ocorrem dentro da literatura. Mostramos também, brevemente, como o problema do mal se coloca como tema de interesse para a filosofia e para a teologia. No final da primeira parte, introduzimos C. S. Lewis, o autor cuja a obra Além do planeta silencioso é o objeto do nosso estudo e expomos a metodologia dessa dissertação. No segundo capítulo, discutimos panoramicamente o problema do mal na filosofia e na teologia. Em seguida, apresentamos um painel com os principais estudos que examinam a interface entre o problema do mal e as obras de C. S. Lewis. Ao final do capítulo, elencamos as principais categorias/aspectos do problema do mal que são articuladas na abordagem apologética de Lewis em O problema do sofrimento e que ecoam na narrativa ficcional do nosso objeto de estudo. As principais categorias/aspectos do problema do mal que se relacionam com o primeiro volume da Trilogia cósmica são: a onipotência divina, a queda do homem, o sofrimento humano e o sofrimento animal. Para estudar o problema do mal na literatura, buscamos na hermenêutica filosófica literária de Paul Ricoeur um modelo de análise. Abstraímos da obra Tempo e narrativa a tríplice mimese ricoeuriana como roteiro para o estudo de Além do planeta silencioso. Por fim, aplicamos o modelo resultante à análise do primeiro volume da Trilogia cósmica de C. S. Lewis. Em mímesis I, estudamos a ambientação da ficção e os personagens da história. Em mímesis II, localizamos o capítulo da obra onde a narrativa pode ser vista como um todo. Então, descrevemos como as categorias/aspectos do problema do mal são articuladas nessa parte de Além do planeta silencioso, verificamos como a narrativa compartilha elementos do corpo literário da época em que foi produzida e como ela rompe com essa tradição. Em mímesis III, abordamos os valores e as implicações éticas práticas que podem ser verificadas na leitura do livro. C. S. Lewis propõe em sua narrativa uma teodiceia desde um ponto de vista teísta cristão, utilizando-se da ficção para transmitir sua maneira de entender o problema do mal e suas implicações.

This thesis presents a new study of Pierre Bayle’s Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1696), with special reference to Bayle’s polemical engagement with the theologian Pierre Jurieu. While recent years have seen a surge of interest in Bayle, there is as yet no consensus on how to interpret Bayle’s ambiguous stance on reason and religion, and how to make sense of the Dictionnaire: although specific parts of the Dictionnaire have received much scholarly attention, the work has hardly been studied as a whole, and little is known about how the Dictionnaire was influenced by Bayle’s polemic with Jurieu. This thesis aims to establish a new method for reading the Dictionnaire, under a dual premise: first, that the work can only be rightly understood when placed within the immediate context of its production in the 1690s; second, that it is only through an appreciation of the mechanics of the work as a whole, and of the role played by its structural and stylistic particularities, that we can attain an appropriate interpretation of its parts. Special attention is paid to the heated theological-political conflict between Bayle and Jurieu in the 1690s, which had a profound influence on the project of the dictionary and on several of its major themes, such as the tensions in the relationship between the intellectual sphere of the Republic of Letters and the political state, but also the danger of religious fanaticism spurring intolerance and war. The final chapters demonstrate that Bayle’s clash with Jurieu was also one of the driving forces behind Bayle’s reflection on the problem of evil; they expose the fundamentally problematic nature of both Bayle’s theological association with Jurieu, and his self-defence in the second edition of the Dictionnaire. The title of this thesis comes from Herman Melville’s novel: ‘Pierre, or the Ambiguities’.

Two prominent historians, David Cannadine and Brad Gregory, have recently contended that history is distorted by overemphasis on human difference and division across time and space. This problem has been acute in studies of Native-Newcomer relations, where exaggeration of Native pre-contact stability and post-contact change further emphasized Native-Newcomer difference. Although questioned in economic, social and political spheres, emphasis on cultural difference persists. To investigate the problem, this study examined the Algonquian wihtiko (windigo), an apparent exemplar of Native-Newcomer difference and division. With a focus on the James Bay Cree, this study first probed the wihtiko phenomenon’s Native origins and meanings. It then examined post-1635 Newcomer encounters with this phenomenon: from the bush to public opinion and law, especially between 1815 and 1914, and in post-1820 academia. Diverse archives, ethnographies, oral traditions, and academic texts were consulted. The cannibal wihtiko evolved from Algonquian attempts to understand and control rare but extreme mental and moral failures in famine contexts. It attained mythical proportions, but fears of wihtiko possession, transformation and violence remained real enough to provoke pre-emptive killings even of family members. Wihtiko beliefs also influenced Algonquian manifestations and interpretations of generic mental and moral failures. Consciously or not, others used it to scapegoat, manipulate, or kill. Newcomers threatened by moral and mental failures attributed to the wihtiko often took Algonquian beliefs and practices seriously, even espousing them. Yet Algonquian wihtiko behaviours, beliefs and practices sometimes presented Newcomers with another layer of questions about mental and moral incompetence. Collisions arose when they discounted, misconstrued or asserted control over Algonquian beliefs and practices. For post-colonial critics, this has raised a third layer of questions about intellectual and moral incompetence. Yet some critics have also misconstrued earlier attempts to understand and control the wihtiko, or attributed an apparent lack of scholarly consensus to Western cultural incompetence or inability to grasp the wihtiko. In contrast, this study of wihtiko phenomena reveals deeper commonalities and continuities. They are obscured by the complex evolution of Natives’ and Newcomers’ struggles to understand and control the wihtiko. Yet hidden in these very struggles and the wihtiko itself is a persistent shared conviction that reducing others to objects of power signals mental and moral failure. The wihtiko reveals cultural differences, changes and divisions, but exemplifies more fundamental commonalities and continuities.

Nous analysons le dernier ouvrage écrit par Pierre Bayle, les Entretiens de Maxime et de Themiste (1707), où il livre un combat de plume ultime avec deux théologiens réformés, Jean Le Clerc et Isaac Jaquelot. Il s’agit d’une querelle entamée après la publication du Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) de Bayle, et dont tous les ouvrages directement concernés sont aussi examinés. À partir du problème du mal et du péché, Bayle formule une critique à la théologie chrétienne visant à mettre en évidence la faiblesse des arguments rationnels qui doivent l’affirmer. Les seules forces de la raison ne suffisent pas à éclairer les dogmes qui forment la religion, et il faut avoir recours à la lumière de la foi, à la Bible, pour les accepter. De l’étude de cette argumentation nous concluons que, pour Bayle, la religion est une question privée, qui ne se prête pas vraiment au dialogue philosophique. / We analyze the last work written by Pierre Bayle, the Entretiens de Maxime et de Thémiste (1707), where he opposes for the last time two Arminian Theologians, Jean Le Clerc and Isaac Jaquelot. Their quarrel started with the publication of Bayle’s Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697) and continued until his death in 1706. By pointing to the insoluble problem of evil and sin, he proposes a refutation of rational arguments that attempt to prove Christian Theology. We examine all the writings involved in this controversy and review in great length its arguments. Bayle shows that Christianity is unable to demonstrate its dogmas by reason, and claims that only faith can legitimate them. Therefore it is concluded that religion for Bayle belongs to the private sphere, and cannot be rationalized through a philosophical dialogue.

Since the advent of the environmental crisis, some writers have raised concerns with the moral influence of Christian scripture and interpretive traditions, such as the medieval book of nature, a hermeneutic in which nature and scripture are "read" in reference to one another. Scripture, they argue, has tended to stifle sacred relationships with nature as a non-human other. This thesis argues that such perspectives are reductive of the sacred quality of scripture. Environmental perspectives should be concerned with the desacralization of religious texts in addition to nature. Chapter one suggests that two questions surrounding the medieval book of nature's history can help us address ways that such perspectives reduce religious interpretation of sacred texts. The first question is the tension between manifestation and proclamation, or the question of how scripture and nature reveal sacred meanings. The second is the problem of evil, or the question of where evil and suffering come from. It also proposes that Shakespeare's As You Like It and religious philosophy, particularly Paul Ricoeur's writings, can help us address these problems and provide a contemporary religious perspective of the "book of nature." Drawing on scenes in the play in which nature is "read" as a book and Ricoeur's essay on "Manifestation and Proclamation," chapter two argues how manifestation often works interdependently with proclamation. Chapter three discusses how anthropocentric worldviews in which natural entities are exploited also distort interpretive relationships with scripture. Overcoming desacralization requires giving up desires to suppress contingencies, particularly suffering, in nature and in interpreting religious texts. Only as the characters in As You Like It accept contingencies are they able to engage hidden sources of hope, which is comparable to the need to let go of mastery in interpretation Ricoeur describes. Chapter four discusses problems with attempts to uncover the origins of the environmental crisis by discussing what Ricoeur writes about the problems with theodicy and Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of evil. Assumptions that specific human origins for evil can be blamed confirm deceptively human-centered worldviews and can mask valuable messages about how to morally respond to suffering that are taught in Judeo-Christian narratives.