Dark Matters - Mara van der Lugt

An Intellectual History Of The Philosophers Who Grappled With The Problem Of Evil, And The Case For Why Pessimism Still Holds Moral Value For Us Todayin The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries, Philosophers Engaged In Heated Debates On The Question Of How God Could Have Allowed Evil And Suffering In A Creation That Is Supposedly Good. Dark Matters Traces How The Competing Philosophical Traditions Of Optimism And Pessimism Arose From Early Modern Debates About The Problem Of Evil, And Makes A Compelling Case For The Rediscovery Of Pessimism As A Source For Compassion, Consolation, And Perhaps Even Hope. Bringing To Life One Of The Most Vibrant Eras In The History Of Philosophy, Mara Van Der Lugt Discusses Legendary Figures Such As Leibniz, Hume, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, And Schopenhauer.