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The Blackwell companion to the problem of evil

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The Blackwell Companion to the Problem of Evil presents a collection of original essays providing both overview and insight, clarifying and evaluating the philosophical and theological problem of evil in its various contexts and manifestations. Features: all original essays that…

Kierkegaard and Kant on radical evil and the highest good: virtue, happiness, and the kingdom of God

by Fremstedal, Roe

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Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Fremstedal offer…

Kierkegaard and Kant on radical evil and the highest good: virtue, happiness, and the kingdom of God

by Fremstedal, Roe

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Kierkegaard and Kant on Radical Evil and the Highest Good is a major study of Kierkegaard's relation to Kant that gives a comprehensive account of radical evil and the highest good, two controversial doctrines with important consequences for ethics and religion. Fremstedal offer…

Schelling's dialogical freedom essay: provocative philosophy then and now

by Freydberg, Bernard

fromSUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy

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"With clarity and liveliness, Bernard Freydberg explores the major themes treated in Schelling's final public work: freedom, imagination, the nature of God, indifference, and love. Freydberg also examines Schilling's engagement with philosophy's history, including the relationsh…

Explaining evil

by Ellens, J. Harold

fromPsychology, religion, and spirituality

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What is evil? And what is the antidote to this universal malady, however it is defined? Traditionally, people have turned to religion when seeking a remedy to apparent evil. However, sociologists, psychologists, historians, philosophers, and even lawyers can also provide valuabl…

Against absolute goodness

by Kraut, Richard

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Are there things we should value because they are, quite simply good? Richard Kraut argues that there are not. Goodness, he holds, is not a reason-giving property - in fact, there may be no such thing. It is an illusory and insidious category of practical thought.

Evil: a philosophical investigation

by Russell, Luke

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"When asked to describe wartime atrocities, acts of terrorism, and serial killers, many of us reach for the word 'evil.' But what does it mean to say that an action or a person is evil? Some philosophers have claimed that there is no such thing as evil, and that thinking in term…