Teodiceias — uma análise filosófica partindo de Júlio Cabrera e Arthur Schopenhauer
Theodicies - a philosophical analysis based on Julio Cabrera and Arthur Schopenhauer English version: The term theodicy was formally introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in the early 18th century, in his work Essais de Théodicée (1710), to designate the rational effort to justify God's justice (theós + díkē) in the face of evil, suffering, and imperfection in the world. However, the problem that theodicy attempts to solve is much older, appearing as early as late antiquity with Saint Augustine , who denied evil its own ontological status by conceiving it as a privation of good ( privatio boni ) and attributing moral evil to the misuse of human free will, a conception that would be systematized in the Middle Ages by Thomas Aquinas within scholasticism ; in parallel, there is the so-called pedagogical theodicy or theodicy of moral maturation, associated with Irenaeus of Lyons , according to which suffering functions as a means for the spiritual development of the creatu...