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2003
AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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Moral Evil as Apparent Disvalue
Religious Studies, 1977In this article1 I have two theological interests and a less direct philosophical one.
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Moral evil: The comparative response
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2003Theists can respond to the problem of evil in four general ways. First, they can offer a theodicy, i.e., an attempt to provide God's reasons (actual or possible) for permitting evil.1 Second, theists may seek to show that arguments purporting to demonstrate a problem of evil for theism are flawed, e.g., such arguments may involve a questionable ...
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Dialogue, 2013
The central aim of this article is to set out the essential elements of Hegel’s conception of evil. I demonstrate that Hegel understands evil primarily as a moral phenomenon. In particular, he identifies evil as a pernicious subjectivism and hypocrisy that undermines the social and institutional conditions for ethical action.
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The central aim of this article is to set out the essential elements of Hegel’s conception of evil. I demonstrate that Hegel understands evil primarily as a moral phenomenon. In particular, he identifies evil as a pernicious subjectivism and hypocrisy that undermines the social and institutional conditions for ethical action.
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1999
Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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Moral Evil, Privation, and God
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2017On a traditional account, God causes sinful acts and their properties, insofar as they are real, but God does not cause sin, since only the sinner causes the privations in virtue of which such acts are sinful. After explicating this privation solution, I defend it against two objections: (1) that God would cause the sinful act’s privation simply by ...
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Torture, evil and moral development
Journal of Moral Education, 2015I’ve been ruminating about torture and evil after stumbling upon and reading a couple of books on evil during a recent academic break, but especially since the release in December 2014 of the execu...
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Using trait and moral theories to understand belief in pure evil and belief in pure good
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021Russell J Webster +2 more
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Development and validation of the good and evil character traits (GECT) scale
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2021Liying Jiao, Ying Yang, Yan Xu
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Dirty Hands and Moral Conflict – Lessons from the Philosophy of Evil
Philosophia (United States), 2021Christina Nick
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