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Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 10th, 2010, 4:47 pm
by JDMalament

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 10th, 2010, 8:11 pm
by Nerd42
I assumed Huxley was Aldous Huxley. No idea if my assumption was correct or not. As for the other two, no idea, but Aldous Huxley seemed like the obvious answer to the third one to me.

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 10th, 2010, 8:19 pm
by Sven

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 10th, 2010, 10:59 pm
by JDMalament
Thanks guys! I was leaning towards A.E. Housman, but as Sven said, you can't know for sure. As for the Huxley's, Aldous was certainly my first guess, but I discovered that the other two were particularly well known for their atheism and T.H. Huxley's nickname was "Darwin's bulldog."

- Jared

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 11th, 2010, 8:53 pm
by Nerd42

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 11th, 2010, 9:38 pm
by JDMalament

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: May 12th, 2010, 1:49 am
by Nerd42

Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

PostPosted: June 4th, 2010, 8:25 pm
by agingjb
Aldous Huxley's "The Perennial Philosophy" doesn't suggest that he was an atheist, although I doubt if CSL would have found it to be more than an interesting anthology. But that book was written after "The Problem of Pain". It could be of course, however unlikely it may seem, that Aldous Huxley's publicly expressed views changed from atheism to a sort of theism over time.

More relevantly, the use of "Mr Huxley" rather than "Huxley" does imply a reference to a writer living at the time of writing (1940), which would exclude Thomas Huxley.