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    Bosanquet fails to take evil seriously — Carmelics
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    Bosanquet fails to take evil seriously

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    • 1.Bosanquet's idealist framework treats finite suffering as a necessary moment in the self-realization of the Absolute, rendering it instrumentally justified.
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    • 2.Any theodicy that renders evil instrumentally necessary to a greater whole functionally denies evil's intrinsic moral weight, as Kant's deontological framework requires.
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    • 3.Denying evil's intrinsic moral weight is logically equivalent to failing to take evil seriously as a genuine moral category.
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    • 1.Bosanquet explicitly argues in 'The Value and Destiny of the Individual' that pain and suffering are transformed and redeemed within the whole of experience.
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    • 2.The phenomenological tradition, particularly Levinas, holds that the 'useless suffering' of the Other resists all totalization and demands recognition on its own terms.
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    • 3.A philosophy that subsumes concrete suffering into systematic totality—as Bosanquet's Absolute does—structurally prevents the ethical confrontation with evil that Levinas identifies as primary.
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    • 1.Bosanquet assimilates evil into the Absolute
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    • 2.Assimilating evil into the Absolute minimizes or dissolves the significance of evil
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    In his 2006 The God of Metaphysics, T.L.S. Sprigge endorses a broadly Bosanquetian account of religion, but raises a number of criticisms of Bosanquet’s account—particularly concerning its implications for ethics. Sprigge argues, for example, that by his assimilation of evil into the Absolute, Bosanquet not only fails to take evil seriously, but encourages passivity, assuming that evil is either inevitable or will eventually disappear on its own. The claim that Bosanquet’s absolute idealism enta
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