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Abstract
Sin, Sorrow, and Suffering: A Roycean Response to These Deeper Tragedies of Life1 Kim garchar / Kent state university Introduction merican philosopher Josiah royce is known for having concerned himself with the question of evil and experience of tragedy. in this essay, i focus not on the question of evil but rather on the associated problems of sin and tragedy, and the suffering that exists in their wakes. in particular, i take as my starting points royce's claims that meaning is found and created only in the context of a community,2 that interpretation and a shared dedication to common goals unite persons into a community,3 that these processes of interpretation and shared dedications create meaning in the community, and that human beings all crave meaningful lives. given this framework, i argue that sins and tragic events are ontologically, if not experientially, similar in royce's philosophy. further, i argue that if persons are to recover in any meaningful way from a given tragedy, the response to the tragic event must be structurally similar to the atonement (recovery from sin) royce develops in The Problem of Christianity. Sin, Treason, and Weakness of Will royce argues that all human beings crave
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Feb 2, 2012