/lit/ - Literature

>>16740491
Thanks for the recommendation, but i've already read Hirschman's 'Passions and Interests' (i'm actually planning on reading his other book, 'Exit, Voice, and Loyalty' soon). I agree, it was a great book.
>>16740545
I've read a bit in IR but i honestly wasn't a fan. I'm more interested in domestic politics. But thanks anyway.

I quite like his Modality and Free Will Theodicy (defence). Though i've never really felt the intuitive pull of Modal Realism (the truth value of modal statements seems to me to be Coherentist, rather than Correspondence), but Ersatz Realism is easier to swallow than Lewisian Realism. World-indexed properties are also preferable to me over Counterpart theory for TWI.
His explanation for natural evil in 'God, Freedom, and Evil' was disappointing though. I find the idea of an omniscient and omnipotent God at least plausible, but further necessitating that there is also a powerful evil being (Satan) exerting it's free will is too far for me. I understand it is consistent with Christian theology (which theodicies are mainly defending), but it still felt to me as a bit of a hand wave compared to the rest of the FWD.