Theodicy#Cosmodicy and anthropodicy

Under Kosmodizee ( Greek: κόσμος ( kósmos ) "world order" and δίκη ( Dike ) "Justice " ) is the justification of the cosmos, despite ( or because of) his evil. The term was coined by Erwin Rohde in analogy to the term theodicy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Background

Do thoughts of Kosmodizee in ancient times - as in Plotinus - be applied, is of her primarily related to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche 's speech, for which she was a central concern.

Plotinus designed a Kosmodizee against Christians and Gnostics. The Gnosis, he accused, they would ignore the world. The Christian tradition tried to hold and the dualism of God (good) and the cosmos to be avoided ( as the fullness of evil ) against Gnosticism and Manichaeism in the good order of creation and its meaning.

For Nietzsche, the Kosmodizee unfolded primarily in the confrontation with Arthur Schopenhauer's pessimism, which should be overcome in this way.

Rohde, Nietzsche's friend seems to have used the term under the influence of The Birth of Tragedy first. There he was, still under the spell of Richard Wagner, explains existence and the world are " eternally justified " only as an aesthetic phenomenon. " " Nietzsche used the term also, as in his first Untimely Meditation, a polemical work, which he called the " wanted to expose cultural philistine " David Friedrich Strauss. Since Strauss scientific and knowingly dishonest traversed and assume everything happened had the " highest intellectual value " is so " ordered perfectly reasonable and purposeful " and contained a revelation of eternal goodness, he needed probably a "complete Kosmodicee " and was " at a disadvantage against the, the it was " to do " just a Theodieee and may, for example, perceive the whole existence of man as an act of punishment or refining state. "

Nietzsche sought to justify the life by working out the perspective conditionality of the antithesis between good and evil and the opposition - tried to overcome - beyond good and evil.