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The Nature of State in Schopenhauer's Political Thought [PDF]
دولتپژوهی, 2020 Opinion on the concept of state has a deep root in the history of western political thought. Although there have been brief and marginal studies in this area in ancient Greece, we notice more attention to the concept of state and its coordinates since ...
Somaye Hamidi, Hashem Ghaderi
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The Incoherence of an Evil God
Religions, 2022 The evil god challenge is for theists to explain why a good god’s existence should be considerably more reasonable than an evil god’s existence. Challengers note that there is a symmetry between a good god and an evil god.
Carlo Alvaro
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The Philosophical Problem of Evil in the Intellectual System of Suhrawardī and John Hick
Jurnal Theologia, 2021 The debate over the term “evil” is one of the most contentious issues in philosophy, as this term is considered to be antithetical to existence. Suhrawardī al-Maqtūl, a prominent Islamic theosophist, believed that evil did not exist.
Mukhammad Zamzami +3 more
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The Emotional Impact of Evil: Philosophical Reflections on Existential Problems [PDF]
, 2019 In The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky illustrates that encounters with evil do not solely impact agents’ beliefs about God (or God’s existence). Evil impacts people on an emotional level as well.
Colgrove, Nicholas
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Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2020 This article compares two major books: Paul Ricœur’s The Symbolism of Evil and George Bataille’s Literature and Evil. The linking between these two thinkers that everything seems to oppose is driven by the hope to find a productive compatibility between ...
Cristina Henrique da Costa
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Face-to-face: Social work and evil [PDF]
, 2014 The concept of evil continues to feature in public discourses and has been reinvigorated in some academic disciplines and caring professions. This article navigates social workers through the controversy surrounding evil so that they are better equipped ...
A. G. Miller +20 more
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Evil Itself and Nothingness in Proclus
Peitho, 2020 In his reflection on the nature of evil, the Neoplatonic philosopher Proclus affirms that evil itself (to autokakon) is “also beyond the absolute non-being” (epekeina kai tou mēdamōs ontos).
Valerio Napoli
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Bodily Harm Inflicted by Witches
Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2007 Discussed are the ways of inflecting harm by exuding envy through different parts of witch’s body (the evil eye, evil speech, evil touch, evil gift ), and protective measures against the evil eye and against intentional praise in eastern part of Slovenia.
Mirjam Mencej
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Aristotle and the Privation Theory of Evil [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهAccording to the privation theory of evil, evil is the privation of something that a thing should naturally possess on account of its species. This definition of privation is introduced by Aristotle, but Aristotle himself has never explicitly equated ...
Ali Nikzad, Ghasem Pourhasan
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ONTOLOGY OF EVIL IN KVIRIN VASILJ’S WORKS [PDF]
Hum, 2007 The article deals with understanding of physical, moral and metaphysical evil in Kvirin Vasilj’s philosophy. Since he does not accept existence of metaphysical evil as an individual reality (he understands metaphysical evil from the final goal or ...
Nikola Stanković
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