ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the situated knower as significantly weighing in on the tension between the atrocity paradigm and theodicy. It provides the experiential knowledge which is important for standpoint epistemology. Philosophers of all stripes have attempted to account for how narratives can instruct, guide, or change behavior. Philosophers of language, such as Donald Davidson, argue that to understand or interpret any linguistic utterances, a speaker must stand in relation to another speaker and the world. Narratives that could function as theodicy, in any event, would have to be relevant to the person who hears the narrative. Although the second-person standpoint is fashionable in contemporary epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of religion, there are early prefigures to the standpoint that have impacted current scholarship. Discusses the first-person standpoint, she refers only to the first-person singular, because by rejecting the first-person plural along with the first-person as the standpoint of theodical narrative.
