[Review Essay: Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002), xii + 358 pp.] The common consensus among philosophers is that philosophy, since Descartes, has tried to overcome skepticism. Susan Neiman believes, on the contrary, that modern philosophy was "guided by the problem of evil." What impelled the great thinkers of the last four centuries was not the worry that we do not know anything or that all the world is just a bad dream. The central problem of philosophy has been, and should continue to be, the problem of evil:
