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Disintegration, Salvation, and/or Madness in Dostoevsky

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 23, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Psychological fragmentation and derangement suffuse Dostoevsky's fiction. This paper argues that the madness of Dostoevsky characters derives from intense wounds to the self: humiliating lacerations that impel fugue and disintegration. Such vulnerable, frangible characters seek to escape and deny themselves to avoid being seen for who they are.
Jerry Piven
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The Problem of Evil, Rhetoric, and the Drama of the Divine Economy

Religions
The contemporary debate over the problem of evil in analytic philosophy of religion is prone to focusing solely on the problem as an abstract dialectical issue that only concerns philosophers.
B. Kyle Keltz
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Kant on Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 66-78, March 2026.
Abstract Immanuel Kant's The Dispute between the Faculties (1798) contains a footnote referencing four utopian states — Atlantis, Utopia, Oceana, and Severambia. This passage has largely been overlooked in Kantian scholarship. This paper revisits this neglected passage to explore Kant's engagement with utopian literature and its implications for his ...
Karoline Reinhardt
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Theodicy [PDF]

, 2019
The problem of evil has vexed for centuries:
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Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 133-151, March 2026.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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Virtual Demons: Blue Whale and Moral Panic in the Digital Age

Sociology Lens, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 119-129, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the Blue Whale phenomenon as a case of moral panic with particular attention to its trajectory in Turkey. Originating in Russia in 2015, Blue Whale spread rapidly through sensationalist media coverage and soon became framed as a global threat to adolescents.
Kerem Karaosmanoğlu
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The Sovereignty of Humanity and Social Responsibility for Evil Prevention

Religions, 2021
In this paper, I suggest that James Sterba’s recent restatement of the logical problem of evil overlooks a plausible theistic interpretation of the divine–human relation, which allows for a theodicy impervious to his atheological argument, which boils ...
Janusz Salamon
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The Multiverse Theodicy Meets Population Ethics

Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
The multiverse theodicy proposes to reconcile the existence of God and evil by supposing that God created all and only the creation-worthy universes and that some universes like ours are, despite their evils, creation-worthy.
Han Li
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Teodisi Allah Dalam Sastra Hikmat Terhadap Penderitaan Orang Benar

Manna Rafflesia, 2022
A righteous person who experiences suffering. Making the idea of ​​theodicy where God's sovereignty reigns over the world and also human history is inseparable, including suffering.
Gernaida Krisna R. Pakpahan
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Love at Arms’ Length: Reconciliationism and its Tentative Future

The Heythrop Journal, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 65-79, January 2026.
Abstract In a string of articles, over the years, Shawn Bawulski has propagated a palatable via media between full‐fledged apokatastasis and a traditionalist doctrine of hell. Though not original to Bawulski, reconciliationism, in the eyes of many, offers a more faithful and effective synthesis of varied Christian eschatological commitments.
Andrew Hronich
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