I was thinking that Kierkegaard’s objectivity/subjectivity distinction could help me articulate my views about evil and the “problem of evil”. I gave a first try in class on Thursday. I think one inescapable difficulty is the “public” nature of evil (at least on some typical views of what evil is).
For example, if we consider the terrorist attacks on 9/11 as representing evil, that “evil” involves more than just me. Yes, the attackers are involved, but just thinking from the perspective of the victims, many people were affected. If my subjective relationship with evil (or with good or God or whatever) is where truth lies I might very well not have a “problem” with evil. But what to do with the corporate nature of the experience of “evil”?