The Spectral Dilemma and the Instauration of the Divine: Latour contra Meillassoux

Quentin Meillassoux has argued that lives irremediably ruined by injustice, suffering, and tragedy confront us with an irresolvable dilemma: either God exists to bring justice to the world (but such a God necessarily cannot be absolutely good), or God does not exist and true justice is an impossibil...

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Main Author: Norton, Michael (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Univ. 2014
In: ThéoRèmes
Year: 2014, Volume: 6
Further subjects:B Latour
B matérialisme
B Dieu
B Théodicée
B Theodicy
B Meillassoux
B God
B Materialism
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