Anti-Theodicy and Atheism in Albert Camus

Abstract

The existence of evil, in particular, the evil suffered by innocent victims, like children, has been one of the arguments given by Camus against the existence of a God considered to have the attributes of Goodness and Omnipotence. Set in a creationist consideration of the world, the presence of evil gives us the opportunity to subject the Creator-God to a judgment that justifies his work before the existence of evil. This is what we mean by «theodicy», a neologism created by Leibniz in 1710 to refer to the defense of God before the problem of evil.

Keywords

• Camus, teodicea, ateísmo, problema del mal