IN THE Seventeenth-century heyday of the Royal Touch, the Oxfordshire village of Stanton St. John felt amply the rigours of scrofula, the King's Evil. Its residents looked eagerly to the possibility of cure by the Touch. The practice of touching for scrofula by English sovereigns was performed from Edward the Confessor to Queen Anne, while the Hanoverians by and large refrained from following i...

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This paper touches upon the philosophical concept of evil in the context of creativity in general, and computational creativity in particular. In this work, dark creativity is introduced and linked to two important pre-requisites of creativity (i.e. freedom and constraints). A hybrid computational system is then presented; it includes one swarm intelligence algorithm, Stochastic Diffusion Searc...

This article attempts to reframe the traditional account of problem evil for God’s existence. The philosophical debates about existence God within framework do not exhaust available options conceiving perfection, including our understanding power and relationship world. In responding evil, rational theists should seek a reformulation divine perfection consistent with as both necessary morally r...

The basic morality of theodicy is oft disputed. Classical theodicists defend the pursuit an intellectual solution to problem evil while anti-theodicists and practical argue that this distracts efforts from alleviating pain people suffer. In article, I draw on psychological studies show beliefs about God change how resilient are in their experience pain. light research, suggest actually a part r...