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Evil and Meaningful Existence:A Humanistic Response through the Lens of Classical Theism [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2021 This study modestly proposes a humanistic response as supplementary to classical theism in addressing concrete cases of gratuitous human suffering. Classical theism places evil in God’s divine plan of salvation for humanity.
Bonaventure B. Gubazire
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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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Telesni načini škodovanja čarovnic
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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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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Din ve Bilim Muş Alparslan Üniversitesi İslami İlimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2023 The letter is a communication tool used by many thinkers and scientists. It is generally written to disseminate ideas, criticize, and open discussion. The tradition of philosophizing with letters is a method and a form of philosophical discourse widely ...
Fatma SOMUNCUOĞLU ERKAN
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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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Thought and Political Judgment
Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, 2021 Hannah Arendt’s claim that thinking is the last defense against the moral outrages of criminal political regimes sets the problematic of good and evil in relief. Human freedom, Paul Ricœur reminds us, is responsible for evil.
Roger W. H. Savage
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'The banality of evil' and culpability in criminal law [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu, 2021 In the first part of this scientific work the author discusses evil as an anthropological phenomenon. For the purposes of the work he differentiates instrumental and ideological evil. However, actors exist who do not fit into these typical forms.
Drakić Dragiša S.
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What the Fall of Angels Tells Us about the Essence of Morality
Religions, 2021 The article describes two concepts of the sources of morality present in the evolutionist traditions (Evolution of Ethics and the Veneer Theory). Then, a modal argument against the evolutionist theory of morality is presented, based on the history of the
Martyna Koszkało, Robert Koszkało
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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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