"need of explanation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something requires further clarification or understanding. Example: "The new company policy has caused confusion among employees, so there is a significant need of explanation from management to ensure everyone understands its implications."
But we might at least defend the idea that human evil, rather than other types of suffering, is most in need of explanation.
The title in need of explanation is the general title for Mary Judge's works (she has 15 pieces of varying sizes in the exhibition).
According to this definition of evil, there is nothing real that stands in need of explanation – although Augustine does give an account of our deviation from the good by elucidating the concept of original sin.
Hard as it may be to imagine now, the modern novel, as it emerged in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, often treated the chapter gingerly, as a strange oddity in need of explanation.
In response to Kant and other contemporaries who were positively obsessed with finding a scientific explanation for the causes of black skin, Herder pointed out that there is nothing inherently more in need of explanation here than in the case of white skin: it is an analytic mistake to presume that whiteness amounts to the default setting, so to speak, of the human species.
Volitionist theories stipulate as primitive what appears to be in need of explanation.
"It doesn't need lots of explanation," he said about the significance of Friday's match.
It's a fact in need of an explanation".
Indeed, these speculations — actually rigorous abstract arguments — have been developed by evolutionary theorists who, like Mr. Wright, see our moral intuitions as real phenomena in need of an explanation.
You can see it from both the inside and the outside, as unfathomable flesh and blood but also as a social phenomenon in need of an explanation.
It starts with them as facts, as explananda in need of philosophical explanation.
