IGWEBUIKE AS A WHOLISTIC RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND HUMAN SUFFERING

Abstract

A cursory glance at the historical evolution of philosophy reveals that right from the Ancient, through the Medieval and Modern periods to the Contemporary Era, questions about the problem of evil and human suffering have continued to arise in the minds of men and women of various classes. These questions border on the origin, cause, purpose, etc., of human suffering. While these questions continue to arise in the minds of scholars even in the contemporary epoch, this work is interested, not in the origin or purpose of human suffering, but on how to help those who are experiencing human suffering. Although several approaches have been taken to explain and help human suffering, this work, however, adopts an Igbo-African pragmatic and wholistic approach. It sees the different approaches to the problem of human suffering as dimensions of the whole, which, as individuals do not provide a wholistic solution to the problem of human suffering.