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The Problem of Good defines the materialist age as one in which the predominate view reduces all reality to that studied by the physical sciences. According to materialism, all reality, including thought, consists of impersonal forces that have no purpose and are neither good nor bad. This book attempts to show the reasonableness of rejecting materialism, and affirming that thought and purpose are real. Importantly, we can hope for and work for that which constitutes the Good. If there is a problem of evil leading some to reject the notion of God and purpose in the universe, there is likewise the Problem of Good, how to explain its existence, as well as the presence of purpose. This work is readable even without formal training in philosophy and invites the reader to embrace a vision of the world that embraces the good and encourages us to make a better world.

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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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