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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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“Good and Evil are Like Grave Dust…”: the Image of Artistic Reality in the Poem by A. A. Fet [PDF]
Гуманитарный вектор, 2022 The article is devoted to one of the “eternal” themes and problems of Russian literature and philosophy ‒ the problem of good and evil. The relevance of the study of the problem of good and evil is determined by some simplified consideration of this ...
Nadezhda V. Tsepeleva
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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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Sepsis: Inflammation Is a Necessary Evil
Front. Cell Dev. Biol., 2019 Sepsis is one of the leading causes of deaths world-wide and yet there are no therapies available other than ICU treatment. The patient outcome is determined by a complex interplay between the pro and anti-inflammatory responses of the body i.e., a ...
Christina Nedeva +2 more
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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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A Discourse Criticism of Replies to the Problem of Evil in Contemporary Islamic Philosophy (ʿAllama Tabatabaʾi and Ayatollah Motahhari) [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2023 Introduction The perennial problem of evil, which includes a set of problems, was generally formulated in three ways: (1) the logical problem of evil (logical inconsistency of God’s existence and attributes with the existence of evil), (2) the evidential
Zahra Yahyapour +2 more
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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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Plotinus and Augustine on evil and matter
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022 The aim of this paper is to examine whether and, if so, how far, the Augustinian notion of malum is related to Plotinus’ concept of evil, as it appears in Ennead I. 8 [51].
Maurizio Filippo Di Silva
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Can God create humans with free will who never commit evil?
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Can an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God create humans with free will without the capacity to commit evil? Scholars have taken opposite positions on the contentious problem.
Lee Pham Thai, Jerry Pillay
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