Relation to the world· Philosophy of religion

Unjustifiable evil

Axis: The problem of evil — Is evil compatible with a good and all-powerful God?

To justify evil is itself a moral failing: no final harmony redeems the suffering of a single innocent child. Before evil there is no acceptable explanation, but revolt or silence.

Who holds this position

Philosophers 1

Camusexplicit

In The Plague, before a child's agony, Rieux refuses to love a creation in which children are tortured. No harmony, no salvation justifies this suffering: a flat refusal of all theodicy, the revolt against an order that would demand it.

The Plague, IV; The Rebel

Problems

Descriptive Question
Epicurus's riddle
Can God prevent evil but not want to, or want to but not be able? One of the three, his power, his goodness, or the reality of evil, must give way: which one?
evil and the attributes of God
PrescriptiveMoral
To justify evil?
Seeking a reason for the innocent's misfortune, is that not already a fault, an insult to their pain, and before some evils is the only fitting stance not revolt or silence?
the act of justifying evil