The object of this research is the heritage leading representatives Medieval philosophy, while subject philosophical ideas prominent Patristic and Scholastic philosophy upon nature evil. goal work lies in giving holistic assessment to on phenomenon evil Middle Ages, achieved by solving following tasks: 1) concept “the first sin” as foundation for understanding philosophy; 2)...

Jim Sterba’s Is a Good God Logically Possible? looks to resurrect J. L. Mackie’s logical argument from evil. Sterba accepts the general framework that theists seeking give theodicy have favored since Leibniz invented term: search for some greater good provided or evil averted would justify in permitting type and variety of we actually observe. However, introduces deontic twist, drawing on Pauli...

dynamic unconscious, and evolutionary theory's creation of a psychology of adaptation. Leahey has read widely in recent secondary sources; his account therefore stands out as a genuine attempt at synthesis (and is not a rehash of E. G. Boring; e.g., in the account of Wundt's ideas). But though there is reference to social change, the institutional discipline-and certainly explanatory social fac...