Evil-scepticism comes in two varieties: one variety is descriptive, where it claimed that the concept of evil does not successfully denote anything world; other normative, a helpful or useful to be employing either our social interpersonal lives. This paper argues evil-scepticism can responded by understanding as thin moral concept. Understood this way, descriptive challenge fades, because even...

T raffi cking is in the news. It is on the political agenda, both nationally and internationally. Thousands of individuals, hundreds of groups, dozens of newspapers are determined to stamp it out. This focus on traffi cking consistently refl ects and reinforces deep public concern about prostitution/sex work, and also about immigration, and the abuse and exploitation it so frequently involves. ...

Skeptical theists purport to undermine evidential arguments from evil by appealing to the fact that our knowledge of goods, evils, and their interconnections is signi cantly limited. Michael J. Almeida and Graham Oppy have recently argued that skeptical theism is unacceptable because it results in a form of moral skepticism which rejects inferences that play an important role in our ordinary mo...

F or me, the word " evil " is somewhat of an abstraction. Having led a protected life, one of only a few occasions on which I have seen something resembling evil was when the Twin Towers fell on September 11th. Evil is the intent of harm and deliberate violation of basic moral and ethical codes. Evil is now woven into our culture, something that, in recent times, probably became more apparent (...

The paper aims to propose a framework for understanding of the concept moral evil. It argues that “evil” should be considered one so-called “thick” ethical concepts, characterized by their ability simultaneously descriptive and normative. To effect, it examines relationship between concepts wrongness idea evil, with view explaining why evil understood as rather than “thin” concept. Finally, off...

We speak a different language, and here our tongue is incomprehensible. The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption... but to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things,...

The evidence of human wickedness in the world is so transparent that no rational person can dispute its reality. This paper approaches question from an African philosophical perspective and explores relation between apparently free-acting being God conceived as creator ultimate cause being. will proffer answers to following question: what extent be absolved blame for evil they perpetrate a trad...