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Absolute Goodness, Wonder and the Evildoer
Author(s) -
Segal Alex
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12049
Subject(s) - wonder , absolute (philosophy) , relation (database) , power (physics) , goodness of fit , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , statistics , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
R aimond G aita affirms absolute goodness as the only thing with the power to keep fully among us the worst kind of evildoer. At issue in this goodness is a wonder that he ties to joy. Y et G aita does not, perhaps cannot, imagine this power with respect to the evildoer concretely enough for it to move us in the way his account requires. An aspect of his writings that resists the emphasis on a joyous wonder may assist our thinking about the relation to the evildoer.