The crime of creation
New Generation Thinker Jack Symes is a public philosopher at the University of Durham
The Japanese philosopher Yujin Nagasawa says the majority of people are what he calls 鈥榚xistential optimists鈥�. What does this mean for ideas about evil and the creation of life? Jack Symes鈥� essay takes us through the views of thinkers including Schopenhauer, Stephen Law and Camus.
Jack Symes is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 大象传媒 to put academic research on radio. He is based at Durham University. His books include Philosophers on Consciousness: Talking about the Mind and Talking about Existence and Defeating the Evil-God Challenge and he is working on a book about morality.
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