Kant, “On the Miscarriage of All…Trials in Theodicy”

Enlightenment Era Writers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain

In 1791, Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), one of the preeminent German philosophers of the Enlightenment, addressed the problem of evil in an essay titled, “On the Miscarriage of All Philosophical Trials in Theodicy.” In it, Kant categorizes theodicies into three general approaches: First, a theodicy can argue that what mankind considers to be “evil” is not, […]

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