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Tadeusz GadaczCorresponding author

The Problem of Evil in Józef Tischner's Philosophy

Article
12/2 - Fall 2007, pages 277-291
Date of online publication: 11 April 2016
Date of publication: 30 December 2007

Abstract

The problem of evil is a metaphysical problem bound up with the conditions of human existence. The radical evil of fascism and communism, according to Józef Tischner, opens up the possibility that we live in the time of a modern Manichaeism, understood as having two faces: nihilism and pessimism. The possibility of thinking of such a modem form of Manichaeism necessarily calls for a new inquiry into the question of evil. For Tischner, evil, like good, is not an object, but something in which man participates, and for this reason it cannot be objectified and defined. One can only ask how it appears.

Cite this article

Gadacz, Tadeusz. “The Problem of Evil in Józef Tischner's Philosophy.” Forum Philosophicum 12, no. 2 (2007): 277–91. doi:10.35765/forphil.2007.1202.21.