**Author:** [[Susan Neiman]] **Published:** 2002 — *An Alternative History of Philosophy* Neiman argues that the problem of evil, not epistemology, is the hidden engine of modern philosophy from Lisbon (1755) to Auschwitz. ## Cited in - [[History of Evil]] · Map: [[Problem of Evil & Philosophy of Religion]] ## Reading log Filed during an active reading of this book. - **Definitions** (page + term) → atomic notes in [[Dictionary]], each cited to this book + page. - **Thinkers** (an argument, position, or note about a person) → notes in `Sources/Books/Evil in Modern Thought/People/`, scoped to how they appear *in this book*, linked to any general [[People]] note. - **Topics** (a theme Neiman develops) → notes in `Sources/Books/Evil in Modern Thought/Topics/`. ### Thinkers logged - [[Nietzsche]] — the problem of evil reveals more about the person raising the complaint than about the actual complaint (p. 212) ### Topics logged - [[Moral and Natural Evil]] — the instinct to connect the two, and the need for intelligibility for suffering (pp. 216–217) ### Terms logged - [[Sanguine]] — p. 208 - [[Meilleur des mondes possibles]] — p. 209 (quoted from [[Schopenhauer]]) - [[Pathos]] — p. 210 - [[Litany]] — p. 210 - [[Jeremiad]] — p. 211 - [[Troubles of Rich Men]] (צָרוֹת שֶׁל עֲשִׁירִים) — p. 211 - [[Philosophes]] — p. 211 - [[Bon mot]] — p. 211 - [[Weltschmerz]] — p. 223 - [[Autos-da-fé]] — p. 223 - [[Schadenfreude]] — p. 225 - [[Sacrilege]] — p. 226 - [[Unheimlich]] — p. 229 - [[Nascent]] — p. 230