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Nature and Evil

2023
Abstract Are there laws connecting natural and moral phenomena? What is the ontology of the social such laws demand? Both Gandhi and Ambedkar held ontologically thin conceptions of social reality, including that of caste. Gandhi refrained from referring to caste in his account of untouchability as he thought such deep descriptions would ...
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Introducing Moral Evil and Natural Evil

2013
Philosophy is one of the disciplines that have been examining evil for hundreds of years. When looking for a human ‘taste for harming’ and for answers to the question in which terms to discuss evil, philosophy definitely has a say. It is however impossible to review all the relevant literature about evil in philosophy and adjacent sciences as numerous ...
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NATURAL GOODNESS AND NATURAL EVIL

Ratio, 2006
AbstractIn Natural Goodness Philippa Foot gives an analysis of the concepts we use to describe the characteristics of living things. She suggests that we describe them in functional terms, and this allows us to judge organisms as good or defective depending on how well they perform their distinctive functions.
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From the Nature of Evil to the Evil of Nature Richard III: As an Evil Problem

2022
Bu çalışmada, Shakespeare'in III. Richard oyununda kötülük olgusunun işlenişi ve Richard karakterinin kötülüğün temsilcisi olarak kurgulanışı incelenmiş, bu incelemede Richard'ın kötü niyetli hükümdarlığı Makyavelci yönetici tipi üzerinden değerlendirilmiştir.
OKUR, İbrahim Alp, AKIN, Banu Ayten
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The Nature of Evil

The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2012
This paper argues that evil conduct is underlain by sadistic malice or heartlessness or extreme recklessness that is connected to severe harm in the absence of any significant extenuating circumstances. The paper explores the complexities of those three modes of potentially evil culpability, and also the intricacies of the connections that can link ...
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Naturalism and Evil

2006
Abstract So far we’ve considered the problem of evil just as a problem for Theism. In this respect, our discussion has been typical. Anthologies in the philosophy of religion commonly treat the problem of evil simply as a problem for Theism, the main question being II Are Theistic replies adequate?” One seldom sees arguments to the ...
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