anthropodicy

Definitions

An attempt, or an argument attempting, to justify that human beings are fundamentally good despite the commission of evil acts by some people.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he next two [devices or arguments] urge⟳ that these distresses are the prices paid for certain compensating advantages to the animals, notably existence. I have⟳ some difficulty believing that they are seriously intended, for they would, without alteration, justify⟳ the vilest imaginable human slavery and oppression. Nor is it generally true nowadays—though once it was—that those who offer⟳ such anthropodicies are much impressed by them in their original form⟳, as theodicy.”

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