HUMAN SUFFERING AND EXISTENCE: SOREN KIERKEGAARD IN QUEST.
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2022-11-11
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Tangaza University College
Abstract
Problem of evil and suffering in the realm of existence greatly challenges us in our
own existence as well as our belief in the good, all-powerful and all-loving God. The problem of suffering and the reality of evil reflects daily in the pages of human
experience and existence. There are sorts of sorrows and sufferings, all kinds of
inhumanities to man and his insecure existence in the world. Evil and suffering is
always a dark, ugly heartbreaking and crushing reality. Therefore, this paper will help us understand the human suffering in relation to
existence. The paper embraced philosophical methods of historical, analytical and
theological. Historical since I didn’t start from scratch, problem of suffering is
historical. Our topic being a philosophical problem, the question ‘why’ this affecting
man. Can we address it rationally?
Analytical since we have analyzed ideas developed about the problem of our subject
as we came across them in our study. We saw the arguments of different philosophers
more so Soren Kierkegaard his ideas and many philosophies more so existentialism
school of thought; hence we embraced the method of analytical. The topic being a theological problem since it touches the person of God and his ways
of acting upon His creatures who experience the existence, they are the ones to have
faith in him and they are the subjects of evil and suffering; hence again the paper had
to take the study of the nature of God and religious belief dimensions. Thus, our topic tackled different questions in this study, at last we come to agree that
suffering can’t not be an idea to talk about without existence of human, that is to say
actually that is to say, the essential part of existence is suffering.
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HUMAN SUFFERING AND EXISTENCE: SOREN KIERKEGAARD IN QUEST.