Virtuous Responses to Suffering, Tragedy, and Evil [Hardcover]

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

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 coeditor 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 AgapeCentered Vision of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics.

Suffering and tragic situations have always been a part of human experience. This book features essays from varying philosophical views on responses to tragedy, suffering and evil.

Many conflicting strategies for addressing such situations have been proposed in response to such tragedies. Both Stoic acceptance and cathartic lament have been advocated. Embracing skepticismespecially religious skepticismabout the goodl³2