The Problem of Good: Finding Purpose Amid the Chaos of Reality

by Richard P. Mullin

Overview

The Problem of Good questions a materialist age which reduces reality to that studied by the physical sciences. According to materialism, all reality, including thought, consists of impersonal forces that have no purpose and are neither good nor bad. This book attempts to show the reasonableness of rejecting materialism, and to affirm that thought and purpose are real. Importantly, we can hope and work for that which constitutes the good. If there is a problem of evil leading some to reject the notion of God, there is likewise the problem of good, which can lead to an acceptance of the idea of God and purpose in the universe. This work is readable even without formal training in philosophy. It invites the reader to a vision of the world which embraces purpose, the good, and motivation to work a better world.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940166265296
Publisher:	AllrOneofUs Publishing
Publication date:	03/08/2022
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	795,461
File size:	289 KB

About the Author

Richard P. Mullin earned his PhD, in philosophy and taught philosophy at St. Bernard College in Cullman, Alabama for seven years and at Wheeling Jesuit University for thirty years. He also taught Business Ethics in the MBA program at Wheeling Jesuit. He has lectured in American philosophy in Slovenia and Slovakia and frequently read papers at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. In The Soul of Classical American Philosophy: The Ethical and Spiritual Insights of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Pierce (SUNY Press2007), he portrays the governing ideas of the founders of American Pragmatism.  Previous books from AllrOneofUs Publishing: Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life: A Roycean Approach to Nourishing the Good, and The Neglected Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Josiah Royce’s Christian Doctrine of Life as a Guide to Renewing Theology.