Every civilization has a system of ethics that defines their values and morality. The basic concepts "Good" "Evil" are also derived from system. This gains its inspiration the world view particular civilization. Islam, like all other religions, give complete moral code for believers. Qur’ān Sunnah here is only criterion determining principles Ethics Islam hence morality in objective as well abs...

One of the key ethical debates in Russian religious thought, initiated by Leo Tolstoy, concerned question nonresistance to evil force. The purpose this article is assess influence Kant’s ethics and philosophy religion on course debate determine place significance arguments considerations expressed issue Semyon Frank early late periods (1908 1940s) his work. To end I reconstruct general debate, ...

Caliban, the ‘enemy Other’ of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, is a character that allows further investigations colonial ideology in its earliest forms; locating ‘evil’ forces outside continent Europe and White race. only non-European character, typified as autocratic antagonist play whose evil intentions actions cannot be redeemed. Against such representation, essay argues villainous discou...

The system of pre-established harmony proposed by Leibnizian ontology gives perspective to a Universe thought as perfect machine, or "perfect kingdom, governed an absolute Prince". In this „best all possible worlds”, the occurrence evil requires extremely thorough justification. With regard prospective motivation and argument in favor existence world, ethical positioning human soul, conceived s...

In the past, literature for children and adolescents reflected society’s belief that young readers were not supposed to think themselves. Stories vehicles provide direct, simple moral lessons. Those moralistic books reinforced gender good / evil tropes, leaving little room interpretation, grey areas non-traditional roles. this paper, we examine two contemporary books, Le Combat d’hiver (2006) e...

At of end his book, John Parascandola writes, “It is my hope that the reader ... acquired a broader appreciation of disease as a social as well as a medical construct and of the way in which social and cultural factors influence our understanding of and reaction to any given disease.” The social context of syphilis is nicely summarized by the title, Sex, Sin, and Science: A History of Syphilis ...

Both Stanley Milgram and Ernest Becker studied and theorized human evil and offered explanations for evil acts, such as those constituting the Holocaust. Yet the explanations offered by Becker and Milgram are strikingly different. In this essay, brief biographical records of their lives are provided. Differences in their research methods and theories are then examined and traced to relevant dif...

" Man is an ethical animal; in fact he is the ethical animal. His ethicizing is a biological adaptation necessary to success in his way of life. " 1 Values are a universal attribute of humankind. All humans have moral values; that is, they accept standards according to which their conduct is judged right or wrong, good or evil. People have also other sorts of values: economic, aesthetic, gastro...