Knowledge by Narratives: On the Methodology of Stump's Defence

[155] Eleonore Stump claims in her book Wandering in Darkness that the problem of evil—better: ‘the problem of suffering’—can be solved best by the help of narratives (cf. p.xviii). Narratives are according to her view very important for solving this problem, because they allow one to get a more general view about relevant parts of the discussion of suffering. In this context she distinguishes the more detailed view of the discussion from a more general one by two different modes of cognition: the mode of gathering Dominican knowledge that and the mode of gathering Franciscan knowledge how. Stump thinks that this distinction is crucial for a solution to the problem of suffering: