abstract:the aim of current study is to investigate customs, traditions and beliefs related to evil eye according to anthropology of religion and beliefs. some differences have been always distinguished between religious rites and magical rites in anthropology of religion. in this study, we will first present determined definitions of religion and witchery from anthropological perspective and t...

A 32-year-old woman presented with right-sided visual loss, hearing loss and diffuse headache. Examination confirmed CN-II, V1/2, and VIII neuropathies. MRI showed an infiltrative skull-base process involving the pachymeninges. Serology and histopathology confirmed idiopathic hypertrophic pachymeningitis.

James Sterba has presented a powerful and existentially sincere form of the problem evil, arguing that it is logically impossible for God to exist, given there are moral requirements prevent where one can, these would bind an all-powerful good God, who indeed be able such evil. The ‘Kantian’ argument I set out, if accepted, undermine following stage Sterba’s argument: Significant especially hor...

The fact that there is animal suffering in the world seems to challenge existence of God. This because although we can find plausible reasons for human (the pursuit a greater good), it animals gratuitous and serves no function terms good. In this article, however, idea poses problem God by using an Afro-communitarian viewpoint. We contend logically compatible with be understood as promoting dif...

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Pain and suffering are prima facie bad things. They are widespread. So the traditional argument against theism (the argument from evil) starts with them. Defendants of God’s goodness either have to explain why there is evil (i.e. offer a theodicy) or have at least to show that the argument from evil has no force against theism. Alvin Pantinga (1985) distinguishes between offering a (positive) t...

Abstract The author analyses the problem of weak will in Leo Tolstoy’s story Father Sergius . She ponders why protagonist, a man with such heightened awareness good and evil, at some point his life chooses evil. places ( akrasia ) first into context various iterations determinism subsequently considerations raised by Socrates Aristotle. As their answers are not fully applicable to titular chara...