The Problem of Good: Finding Purpose Amid the Chaos of Reality

Richard P. Mullin

Mar 2022 · AllrOneofUs Publishing

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The Problem of Good: Finding Purpose Amid the Chaos of Reality challenges the assumptions of a materialist worldview that reduces all reality—including consciousness and morality—to impersonal physical forces. In this thoughtful and accessible work, Richard P. Mullin examines the limits of scientific materialism and argues for the reality of thought, purpose, and the good.

If the “problem of evil” has long troubled believers in God, Mullin proposes its inverse: the problem of good. Why do beauty, love, freedom, and moral striving exist in a universe said to be random and indifferent? Drawing from philosophy, science, and theology, he offers a compelling vision in which hope, reason, and moral purpose can be affirmed—even in a world shaped by evolutionary struggle.

Clear enough for the general reader and rich enough for the reflective scholar, this book invites you to rethink what it means to live purposefully in an age of doubt.

The Problem of Good: Finding Purpose Amid the Chaos of Reality challenges the assumptions of a materialist worldview that reduces all reality—including consciousness and morality—to impersonal physical forces. In this thoughtful and accessible work, Richard P. Mullin examines the limits of scient...

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Richard P. Mullin earned his PhD, in philosophy and taught philosophy at St. Bernard College in Cullman, Alabama for seven years and at Wheeling Jesuit University for thirty years. He also taught Business Ethics in the MBA program at Wheeling Jesuit. He has lectured in American philosophy in Slovenia and Slovakia and frequently read papers at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. In The Soul of Classical American Philosophy: The Ethical and Spiritual Insights of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Pierce (SUNY Press2007), he portrays the governing ideas of the founders of American Pragmatism. Previous books from AllrOneofUs Publishing: Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life: A Roycean Approach to Nourishing the Good, and The Neglected Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Josiah Royce’s Christian Doctrine of Life as a Guide to Renewing Theology.

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