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    A theodicy that cannot address the reflective sufferer—wh... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Suffering raises the problem of evil for each individual in a way that mere argument cannot.

    A theodicy that cannot address the reflective sufferer—who neither feels dismayed nor finds projects trivial—fails to engage the strongest version of the interlocutor it must persuade.

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    Reflective sufferer(describes a type of person a theodicy must convince)
    A person who is experiencing pain or hardship but is also thinking deeply about it—not just reacting emotionally, but actually analyzing and questioning their situation.
    interlocutor
    Socrates' partner in dialogue
    theodicy(Central concern of Plutarch's era)
    The philosophical problem of reconciling the existence of evil and unpunished wrongdoing with the existence and goodness of divine providence.

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