RT Article
T1 Ivan Karamazov is a hopeless romantic
JF International journal for philosophy of religion
VO 77
IS 1
SP 65
OP 73
A1 Betenson, Toby
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2015
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1559173971
AB Ivan Karamazov is frequently used, and misused, in discussions concerning the problem of evil. The purpose of this article is to correct some pervasive misinterpretations of Ivan's statement, as found in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I criticise some common misinterpretations, as exemplified in the theodical work of Marilyn Adams and John Hick, as well as the more nuanced interpretation of Stewart Sutherland. Though Sutherland's interpretation is the strongest, it nevertheless misses the mark in identifying Ivan as a positivist. I argue that Ivan Karamazov is not a positivist, but a romantic, and a hopeless one at that. We should, therefore, not read Ivan as stating an argument for the non-existence of God, but instead see him as a representative of a very particular and robust form of non-cognitive atheism.
K1 BROTHERS Karamazov, The (Book : Dostoyevsky)
K1 Dostoevsky
K1 GOOD & evil
K1 Ivan Karamazov
K1 John Hick
K1 KARAMAZOV, Ivan (Fictitious character)
K1 Marilyn Adams
K1 Positivism
K1 Positivist
K1 Research
K1 Romantic
K1 Romanticism
K1 Stewart Sutherland
K1 Theodicy
K1 The problem of evil
DO 10.1007/s11153-014-9487-9