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Madore, Joel. "Deceiving reason. Radical evil in Kant's philosophy." Thesis, University of Essex, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495789.

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Loewen, Nathan Robert. "Rethinking evil with Jacques Derrida." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=66701.

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Evil is an excellent point of departure for exploring the relationship between Jacques Derrida's work and the philosophy of religion. This has not been the explicit focus of any published study on Derrida (1930-2004) thus far. This study explains how central themes in Derrida's writings can open new approaches to the problem of evil. In 1987, David O'Connor realized that the discourse of Anglo-American philosophy of religion had come to an impasse on the problem of evil. In 1998, O'Connor declared a détente between philosophy and theism on the topic. This much was already exp

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Franken, Lizelle. "Evil, morality and modernity." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20262.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis takes Zygmunt Bauman’s book Modernity and the Holocaust as a point of departure in an attempt to show that genocides of the twentieth century are by-products of modernity, and not aberrations, as previously thought. Bauman’s work focuses on the distinctly modern nature of the Holocaust. Using the theory he develops in Modernity and the Holocaust, this thesis attempts to show, first and foremost, that the Holocaust is not the only example of modern genocide. By comparing and contrasting the Holocaust to another, more r

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Lamboy, Regine. "The real banality of evil." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5823.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (November 20, 2006) Vita. Includes bibliographical references

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Rauch, Peter E. (Peter Edward). "Playing with good and evil : videogames and moral philosophy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39151.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2007.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-92).<br>Despite an increasingly complex academic discourse, the videogame medium lacks an agreed-upon definition. Its relationship to previous media is somewhat unclear, and the unique attributes of the medium have not yet been fully catalogued. Drawing on theory suggesting that videogames can convey ideas, I will argue that the videogame medium is capable of modeling and critiquing elements of moral philosophy in a unique manner. To make this argument,

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Laughland, John. "Schelling's philosophy of freedom." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.323008.

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Glass, Jeffrey E. "Corrupt princes| Kant and Fichte on human evil." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1557364.

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<p> Kant and Fichte's respective accounts of evil share many similarities. This paper seeks to determine if and identify where the two accounts diverge. Due to the systematic nature of German Idealist writing, it is impossible to compare the relevant doctrines of Kant and Fichte and passages in a vacuum. Each explanation belongs to a broader account of evil which itself fits into an even more expansive moral philosophy. Thus, the paper has two goals, one belonging to history of philosophy, the other to moral philosophy. The former involves analyzing the differences that exist between the accou

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Mayne, Peter. "Radical evil and highest good : the philosophy of Immanuel Kant." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.306785.

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Hawkins, Devon M. "Schelling, Heidegger, and Evil." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1429262478.

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Ueng, Jia-Sheng. "Plotinus on matter and evil : a commentary on Plotinus' Enneads 1.8 'on what are and whence come evils?'." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333914.

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Crews-Anderson, Timothy Alan. "The Impossibility of Evil Qua Evil: Kantian Limitations on Human Immorality." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07212006-172111/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Melissa Merritt, committee chair; Andrew Altman, Andrew J. Cohen, committee members. Electronic text (44 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 19, 2007. Includes bibliographical references.

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Esmail, Karim Hassanali Ali. "The problem of evil and the free will defence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361606.

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Smith, Glenn. "The problem of evil in selected early Christian writings." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7594.

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Alam, Justin Shumon. "Radical evil, freedom and moral self-development in Kant's practical philosophy." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/6c58e2dd-faba-4621-81f3-075413e508dd.

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Kant remains an important resource in moral philosophy but the absence of an adequate account of moral self-development constitutes a serious gap in his wider moral theory. This study therefore seeks to illuminate the process through which an agent could develop his moral character within a Kantian framework. Firstly, I reject two interpretations of Kant's account of rational agency each of which, if true, would in its own way render moral development impossible. I also outline the interpretation of Kantian rational agency which I take to be correct and which allows development. Kant thinks de

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Head, Jonathan. "The religious framework of Kant's philosophy : practical knowledge, evil and religious faith." Thesis, Keele University, 2016. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/2454/.

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This thesis explores the religious underpinnings of Kant’s thought through a consideration of the related topics of the problem of evil, the nature of religious faith, the possibility of practical knowledge, and the nature of philosophy, as well as his approach to various aspects of Christian theology, such as Scripture, eschatology, and Christology. Texts from both the pre-Critical and Critical period of Kant’s works are considered, building up a picture of Kant as a philosopher deeply concerned with the cultivation and maintenance of religious faith within the bounds of reason. The links bet

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Rebello, Travis. "Living in the Shadow of Death A Philosophical Study of the Evil of Annihilation." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30865.

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How should we respond to the fact that we are going to die? This dissertation investigates some of the implications for answering this question which arise from a detailed study of the relationship between death and well-being. I defend the popular view that death is an evil of privation; that death is bad for the one who dies in virtue of precluding her from having more of a good life. Given this view, I argue, there is not any worthwhile means of securing invulnerability to the evil of death; the only way to make death less bad is to ensure one would not be better off continuing to live—but

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Sheldon, Holly Anne. "The problem of evil in the Zhou Dynasty." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Matusek, Edward. "The Problem of Evil in Augustine's Confessions." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3733.

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Augustine, the fourth-century Christian philosopher, is perhaps best-known for his spiritual autobiography Confessions. Two aspects of the problem of evil are arguably critical for comprehending his life in Books 1 through 9 of the work. His search for the nature and origin of evil in the various philosophies that he encounters (the intellectual aspect) and his struggles with his own weaknesses (the experiential aspect) are windows for understanding the actual dynamics of his sojourn. I defend the idea above by providing a fuller examination of the key role that both aspects play in his spirit

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Aydin, Bayram Selma. "The Relation Of Freedom And Evil In Kant." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12607596/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this study is to examine concepts of freedom and evil, and to clarify their relation in terms of Kant&rsquo<br>s moral philosophy. In this study, I firstly examine Kant&rsquo<br>s understanding of freedom and the problems that this understanding leads to. I also discuss how the concept of freedom can be reconciled with the concept of evil expressed in the form of &ldquo<br>propensity to evil&rdquo<br>. Additionally, I attempt to show the significance of the notion of evil for Kant&rsquo<br>s moral theory. Evil is one of the most criticized concepts of Kant&rsquo<br>s philosophy

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Huang, Daniel G. "Good or evil a Confucian and Christian dialogue on human nature /." Deerfield, IL : Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.2986/tren.006-1616.

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Betenson, Toby George. "The problem of evil as a moral objection to theism." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5610/.

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I argue that the problem of evil can be a moral objection to theistic belief. The thesis has three broad sections, each establishing an element in this argument. Section one establishes the logically binding nature of the problem of evil: The problem of evil must be solved, if you are to believe in God. And yet, I borrow from J. L. Mackie’s criticisms of the moral argument for the existence of God, and argue that the fundamentally evaluative nature of the premises within the problem of evil entails that it cannot be used to argue for the non-existence of God. Section two establishes the moral

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Rodin, Robert Scott. "A study of the doctrine of evil and theodicy in the theology of Karl Barth." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 1993. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=124313.

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This study seeks: 1) to demonstrate that there are four dominant motifs in Barth's theology which provide essential insight for a proper understanding of his doctrine of evil, 2) to prove the centrality and trace the development of these motifs, 3) to analyse each motif for its strengths and weaknesses and develop a critique of Barth's doctrine of evil, and 4) to construct from his doctrine of evil a 'Barthian theodicy' with implications for preaching, counselling and Christian ethics. These motifs are: 1) the 'Necessary Antithesis' between evil and God's eternal plan for creation; 2) the 'Rig

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Moore, Willem. "Die ateistiese oplossing vir die probleem van die kwaad." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52767.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study comprises a survey of the atheist solution to the problem of evil that has occasionally in the past been suggested by philosophers, but has largely been neglected in the philosophy of religion. Against this background, the study has two main objectives. It focusses in the first place on the reasons upon which philosophers like Mackie and McCloskey regard the giving up of one or more of the attributes of God in theism as an adequate solution to the problem of evil, considered to be the strongest argument against t

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Anderson, Joseph Michael. "Leibniz's Theodicies." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4978.

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Evil poses a particular problem to early modern thinkers. Late scholasticism, while itself variegated, provided a number of resources for dispelling concerns about the justice of God raised by the existence of evil. With much of the metaphysics of the scholastics rejected, the new philosophers needed either to find inventive ways to make the old solutions fit into their new systems, to come up with new resources for dispelling the difficulties, or to accept the difficulties as insurmountable, likely via fideism or atheism. Leibniz, I claim, provides a provocative mixture of the first two appro

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Minto, Robert Michael David. "In Defense of Evil Stories: A Study in the Ethics of Audition." Thesis, Boston College, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:107973.

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Thesis advisor: Jorge L.A. Garcia<br>When Odysseus sets sail from Circe’s island, she advises him to stop up his ears and eyes when he passes the Sirens or he will suffer terrible consequences. He makes his crew do it, but keeps his own senses clear, asking only to be tied to the mast so he cannot act on any bewitchments. This story could almost be an allegory about the moral danger of art. In this dissertation, I defend a small part of what I take to be the Odyssean thesis: that art is worth the danger it represents, and, specifically, that what I call "evil stories" are worth the danger they

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Warren, E. Janet. "Cleansing the Cosmos : a Biblical model for conceptualizing and counteracting evil." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3550/.

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Understanding evil spiritual forces is essential for Christian theology. Evil has typically been studied either from a philosophical perspective or through the lens of ‘spiritual warfare’. The first seldom considers demonology; the second is flawed by poor methodology. Furthermore, warfare language is problematic, being very dualistic, associated with violence and poorly applicable to ministry. This study addresses these issues by developing a new model for conceptualizing and counteracting evil using ‘non-warfare’ biblical metaphors, and relying on contemporary metaphor theory, which claims t

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McLean, Karen, and n/a. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge�s use of platonic and neoplatonic theories of evil and creation." University of Otago. Department of English, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080222.121810.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge used theories of evil and creation from Plato, Plotinus and Proclus to refine his definitions of the Trinity and the Absolute and Apostate Wills, and to move beyond the Germanic Naturphilosophie concept of self-hood as achieved by a self-objectification which emphasised differences between the persons of the Trinity rather than their similarities. His use of specific classical Greek concepts allowed him to propose that the Absolute Will�s self-substantiative act established unity and distinction as simultaneous and interrelated equals. From this, Coleridge investigated

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Hudia, Jeremy. "BEYOND TRUTH AND FALSITY: AN ANALYSIS OF PART ONE OF NIETZSCHE’S BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1248188489.

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Libby, Heather Elizabeth. "Evil perpetrators or cultural victims? An examination of the relation between cultural membership and moral responsibility." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/846.

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In my dissertation, I explore the connection between cultural membership and moral responsibility. In particular, I consider what sorts of mitigating excuses, if any, are available to perpetrators of what we take to be serious wrong action due to their unique cultural circumstances. I utilize real-life case studies, and apply various philosophical theories of moral responsibility to these examples. One such theory--offered by Susan Wolf--suggests that these "cultural defendants" may not be responsible for their participation in morally wrong practices due to the possibility that they may have

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Vitale, Vincent Raphael. "Horrendous evils and the ethical perfection of God." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eb53f360-8c22-491c-8a2d-274031ae0890.

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Horrendous evils pose distinctive challenges for belief in an ethically perfect God. To home in on these challenges, I construct an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrors are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit (i.e., a benefit that does not avert a still greater harm) or for harm avoidance. I then bring the framework and the moral valuations confirmed by this casuistry to bear on the project of theodicy. I construct four analogous structures – one for each case – and identify examples of each structure in theodicies in con

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Gardom, James T. D. "The cross in time and the hidden hand of God : theology and the problem of evil, with reference to the work of Peter Forsyth and Austin Farrer." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-cross-in-time-and-the-hidden-hand-of-god--theology-and-the-problem-of-evil-with-reference-to-the-work-of-peter-forsyth-and-austin-farrer(7e65f0e9-e6ba-4934-b811-1529681e5b52).html.

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Mark, D. Clifton. "The general and the particular : politics, sex , and morality in Rousseau." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=99733.

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Rousseau's work often seems contradictory, but the author himself insists that his works comprise a consistent system based on the principle that man is naturally good. In order that individuals might live up to this natural goodness in society, Rousseau advocates a division of labour between general and particular aspects of reason. This division is exemplified in the different roles that Rousseau assigns to the sovereign and the government in the political sphere, and men and women in the domestic sphere. The difficulties faced by man in the absence of these divisions of labour are illustrat

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Kooy, Brian Keith. "Between Being and Nothingness: The Metaphysical Foundations Underlying Augustine's Solution to the Problem of Evil." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11302007-134955/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007.<br>Title from file title page. Timothy M. Renick, committee chair; Tim O'Keefe, Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr., committee members. Electronic text (110 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 18, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-110).

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Delaigue, Chrystel. "Problématisation de la question du Mal à partir de la Psychologie Analytique de Carl Gustav Jung." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSE3018.

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Le Mal retourne de ces questions qui préoccupèrent les hommes et les préoccupent toujours. En cela, et comme au cœur de nos vies, il est familier, presque quelconque. Pourtant, ô combien nombreux furent celles et ceux qui tentèrent de lui donner sens, en essayant, au moins, de le définir. La singularité des auteurs qui s’imposèrent de l’attaquer à la racine, le foisonnement des disciplines qui envisagèrent de le délimiter pour le dépasser peut-être, n’en rendirent pour autant aucune tentative définitivement fructueuse. Le Mal semble rétif à toute limite, quand bien même celle-ci n’en aurait ét

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Goski, Joseph Wyllie. "Kant's School of Morals: The Challenge of Radical Evil and the Need for Moral Education in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31825.

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My aim in this thesis is to demonstrate that common interpretations of Kant’s theory of respect do not account for the motivation a subject feels to follow the moral law. A large number of interpreters focus on Kant’s early ethical works—such as the Grounding and the Critique of Practical Reason—to justify how the moral law alone motivates a subject to act rightly. However, by the time he published Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Kant had discovered the problem of radical evil—the fact that people tend to feel more motivated by the inclinations than by the moral law. Kant’s soluti

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Gupta, Gopal Krishna. "Illusion and identity : Māyā in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711695.

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Friberg, Anna. "Om determinism och fri vilja hos Leibniz : En studie av Leibniz Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Religion and Culture, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-8158.

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<p>Den här uppsatsen studerar och analyserar begreppen ”determinism”, ”fri vilja” och ”moraliskt ansvar”, speciellt i Leibniz Theodicy. I uppsatsens första del utreds och preciseras begreppen vilket är nödvändigt för att sedan, i andra delen, kunna analysera Leibniz teori utifrån dem. Leibniz utgår från att Gud som har skapat jorden och i och med detta även bestämt alla dess förlopp (den förutbestämda harmonin), han anser dock att detta är förenligt med människans fria vilja. Enligt Leibniz är frihet att handla i enlighet med sin natur. Trots att Leibniz hävdar att alla förlopp är bestämda av

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Harrosh, Shlomit. "Evildoing : an attack on morality." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c2ef133f-800f-460b-bf8d-8396b7f48070.

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This thesis presents a comprehensive theory of evildoing as an attack on morality, grounded in objective morality. It introduces evildoing as a distinct category of immorality, arguing that it is the relationship of evil acts to the core of morality that distinguishes them from ordinary wrongdoing. Two projects are undertaken: to provide an account of morality that can ground a theory of evildoing that is both objective and capable of systematically accommodating the diverse phenomena and definitions of evil acts, and to articulate and defend the attack on morality theory of evildoing. The cha

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Anderson, Joseph. "The Best of All Possible Worlds Contains Evil: An Examination and Defense of Leibniz's Arguments that This Is the Best of All Possible Worlds." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/1205.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Philosophy

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Costa, Israel Alexandria. "Rousseau e a origem do mal: o sentido da religiosidade na obra de Jean-Jacques Rousseau." Programa de Pós- Graduação em Filosofia da UFBA, 2005. http://www.repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/11479.

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Angeles, Marie. "On the Matter of God’s Goodness: An Examination of the Failure of Theodicies, Herman Melville, and an Alternative Approach to the Problem of Evil." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/475.

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Within Judeo-Christianity there is a belief in an all perfect God who is omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. However, in this world evil and suffering exists, so how is it possible that an all perfect God can exist? This is called the problem of evil. This thesis examines the problem of evil and how philosophers like Alvin Plantinga, John Hick, and Richard Swinburne attempt to solve the problem of evil through different theodicies. In this paper I argue that all three philosophers and their theodicies fail to solve the problem of evil. I then turn to the writings of Herman Melville, sp

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Möllerström, Helena. "”Den moderne Prometeus” : En analys av ondska i Mary Shelleys Frankenstein." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412571.

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The aim with this paper is to study the different portrayals of evil as seen in Mary Shelley ́s Frankenstein. The analysis of the material is supported by two theories of evil, to further establish an objective aspect to the main subjective interpretation of the content. The analysis is conducted with the support of Claudia Card ́s theory of evil from the book The Atrocity Paradigm, as well as Arne Johan Vetlesen ́s theory of evil from the book Studies of evil. Card ́s theory of evil takes the rains in determining whether or not a deed should be deemed as evil or just unethical. Meanwhile, Vet

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Kassius, Love. "Kritik av den Rena Ondskan eller Förnuftets Paroxysm." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34844.

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This essay tries to lay the transcendental foundations to a notion of “pure evil”, pure in the Kantian sense of the term, which means to find the necessary conditions for the concept and establish which criteria must be in place for such a concept to be justified. This essay tries to show the importance of thinking evil on its own terms instead as a secondary concept derived from ”the Good”. The prevailing philosophical stance from Platon until Kant has been to treat evil as either privation or unreason; this paper instead seeks to formulate a substantive notion of evil as pure evil, showing h

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Paoletti, Cristian Vasconcellos. "O problema da felicidade humana no melhor dos mundos possíveis." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-26102017-125127/.

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Consagrado pela doutrina de que o nosso mundo é o melhor dos mundos possíveise por seu otimismo em relação à humanidade, o filósofo alemão G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) não poderia deixar de tecer considerações sobre o problema da felicidade humana.Mas, em face das inúmeras mazelas que afligem a humanidade, e sendoo leibnizianismo um otimismo teísta, fundado naconvicçãoa respeitodo governo soberanode um Deusbom, segundo oqual se admite a existência de uma ordem moral e divina no Universo, apresentam-se para o pensador algumas dificuldades no que tange àdefesa da tese do melhor dos mundos, se quise

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Dispersyn, Eléonore. "Kant, Fichte, Schelling: essai sur la nature du mal." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210810.

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Progression d'un concept, le mal radical, dans trois textes :La Religion dans les limites de la simple raison (Kant), Le système de l'Ethique (Fichte), et Le Traité de 1809 (Schelling). Origine ultime du mal :libre arbitre ou détermination ?Responsabilité et liberté du mal. Mal moral et métaphysique du mal/ Advance of a concept: radical evil, in three readings: Religion within the Limits of Mere Reason (Kant), System of Ethics (Fichte), and Treatise of 1809 (Schelling).Ultimate origin of evil: free will or determination? Responsibility and freedom to evil. Moral evil and metaphysics of evil.<b

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Machado, Bruno Martins. "A psicologia profunda e a crítica da moral em Para Além de Bem e Mal." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFS, 2006. https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/1670.

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Esta dissertação trata da constituição da noção de Psicologia em Para Além de Bem e Mal. O conceito de psicologia constitui um elemento chave para compreendermos os escritos de maturidade de Nietzsche porque está diretamente associado à hipótese da vontade de poder. Defendemos que a psicologia nietzscheana se apresenta como uma crítica à concepção moderna de sujeito. No lugar da noção moderna de subjetividade o filósofo destaca a relevância das instâncias infraconscientes na determinação da dinâmica e estruturação dos corpos. Ao enfatizar esse "mundo interior" Nietzsche nos conduz a uma nova i

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Poëls, Rémy. "La philosophie de Schopenhauer face au problème du mal : déconstruction, échappatoires, apories." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Lorraine, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024LORR0127.

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L’objet de notre étude est d'explorer la question du mal chez Schopenhauer – question qui n’a jamais été abordée frontalement, bien qu’elle semble tout à fait essentielle – dans sa double dimension, à la fois éthique et métaphysique. Nous retraçons la déconstruction de la formulation classique du problème du mal, point de départ de Schopenhauer, pour envisager dans un second temps comment il pense le mal, dans sa relation avec le monde, à la lumière des concepts de sa métaphysique. L’enjeu est aussi d’envisager les échappatoires possibles, ainsi que les difficultés théoriques auxquelles la phi

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Machado, Bruno Martins 1978. "A psicologia profunda e a critica da moral em Para Alem de Bem e Mal." [s.n.], 2006. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281556.

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Orientador: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T01:49:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Machado_BrunoMartins_M.pdf: 496187 bytes, checksum: 24a66a7e82623416ae242e1a91f9a974 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006<br>Resumo: Esta dissertação trata da constituição da noção de Psicologia em Para Além de Bem e Mal. O conceito de psicologia constitui um elemento chave para compreendermos os escritos de maturidade de Nietzsche porque está diretamente associado à hipótese da v

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Österberg, Marika. "Satire and Social Criticism in C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength." Thesis, Högskolan Väst, Avd för utbildningsvetenskap och språk, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-5162.

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The essay at hand is a New Historicist reading of C. S. Lewis’ dystopian fantasy novel That Hideous Strength. According to New Historicist theory it is informed by many disciplines, namely, philosophy, history, literary theory, theology, social science, and psychology, and it attempts to lessen injustices of race and class. The essay examines how satire operates in the novel, focusing on its societal targets: totalitarianism, laboratory animals, and education. Lewis’ philosophical idea expressed in his “The Abolition of Man” – that a society that averts from what he calls universal, timeless,

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Bassoli, Selma Aparecida. "O conceito de grandeza negativa na filosofia moral de Schopenhauer." [s.n.], 2005. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/281553.

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Orientador: Oswaldo Giacoia Junior<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T01:23:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bassoli_SelmaAparecida_M.pdf: 270977 bytes, checksum: 441067c587503bb1b552422662bbc150 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005<br>Resumo: Aplicamos o conceito matemático de grandeza negativa como um recurso que elucida aspectos da filosofia moral de Schopenhauer. Uma grandeza é negativa relativamente à outra, na medida em que só pode ser reunida a ela por oposição, quando uma suprime

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