EVIL LIKE A PROBLEM TO SUFFICIENT REASON: A REFLECTION FROM KIERKEGAARD AND BERDIAEFF

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  • Maria Cristina Mariante Guarnieri

Abstract

The experience of the evil makes stronger our investigations about the sense, but the reason inevitably discloses its insufficiency to the answer. There is an empty provoked for the suffering that the reason insists on filling with explanations that release the angst. Our aim in this article is to argue the question of the evil in the thoughts of Sören Kierkegaard and Nicholas Berdiaeff, where the problem of the distinction between the good and the evil is preceded by another problem: of the divine freedom and the human being freedom. In this sense, the question about the evil would be connected not just about the concept of freedom but also as the problem of God. The religious thinker understands that the evil is identified with the individual itself, with a ontological assumption: even Kierkegaard as Berdiaeff are working beyond an anthropology – which will be the object on this reflection - that talks about of a insufficient human being, that recognizes himself relative front the Absolute one.

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2016-12-22

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GUARNIERI, Maria Cristina Mariante. EVIL LIKE A PROBLEM TO SUFFICIENT REASON: A REFLECTION FROM KIERKEGAARD AND BERDIAEFF. Religare, [S. l.], v. 7, n. 1, 2016. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/religare/article/view/9767. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2026.

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