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Perceptions of Evil from Abu Ghraib: Female Prison Guards and Sexual Violence [PDF]
, 2015 In 2003, the world was presented with images of sexual torture from Abu Ghraib, a U.S. military prison in Iraq. For many people, part of the shock of the images was the fact that several of the guards were women.
Porter, Theresa, Gavin, Helen
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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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Systemic evil and the international political imagination [PDF]
, 2016 In light of the persistence of discourses of atrocity in the post-Holocaust era, and with the resurgence of talk of evil that followed 11 September 2001, it is clear that the idea of evil still possesses a powerful hold upon the modern imagination.
Hayden, Patrick, Patrick Hayden
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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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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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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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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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The dual relationship between God's creative purposes and the nature of sin and evil in Karl Barth's account of das Nichtige : in dialogue with the monist account of Alvin Plantinga [PDF]
, 2009 John Hick argues for a two-fold typology of Christian theodicies, namely, those which offer monist accounts of good and evil and those which offer dualist accounts.
Torrance, Andrew
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