It is not to peer too intrusively into the arena of a man's life to allude to its austere purity, to suggest that in this respect there are men of high courage who shrink back with something like horror from certain forms of evil, to whom it would be a shame even to speak of those things done in secret ... He looked, of course, for no moral Utopia but no name, nor effort, was subscribed more he...

Despite an increasingly complex academic discourse, the videogame medium lacks an agreed-upon definition. Its relationship to previous media is somewhat unclear, and the unique attributes of the medium have not yet been fully catalogued. Drawing on theory suggesting that videogames can convey ideas, I will argue that the videogame medium is capable of modeling and critiquing elements of moral p...

All complex beings suffer. In fact, the capacity to suffer is as good a measure of biological complexity as any, especially because visceral reactions to physical injury, conscious pain, and emotional distress are visible and measurable. The problem of other minds may prevent us from knowing what pain feels like to another being, but it does not seriously interfere with the conclusion that suff...

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Evil is generally defined as the opposite or absence of good. Although in everyday usage it often used a more limited way to describe influence evil and against common good, can be broader concept. It viewed phenomenon that takes several forms, such moral originating from agent natural diseases disasters. While some religious philosophical worldviews focus on "evil versus good," others reject e...

The determination of individual moral status is a central factor in the ethical evaluation of controversial practices such as elective abortion, human embryo-destructive research, and the care of severely disabled and those in persistent vegetative states. A comprehensive review of recent work on Kant’s conception of moral status reveals the need for a careful examination of the content of Kant...

In recognition of the fifteenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis splendor, this issue of the Josephinum Journal of Theology opens with five essays touching upon the theme of moral action, which was perhaps the central concern of the encyclical. In particular, Veritatis splendor responded to a post conciliar situation in which traditional moral doctrines, such as the teach...

ferdowsi's shahnameh is the document of our national and religious identity and analyzing its structural and conceptual dimensions and particularly studying it comparatively with other religious and mythological texts seems to be necessary in order to achieve greater understanding of its mysteries and to attain its moral and spiritual doctrines and messages in any era and for any generatio...

the present study seeks to explain and analyse some of the fundamentals of hick’s discussion of the problem of evil or theodicy. in this study, while analysing john hick’s solution to the problem of the existence of evil in the world, we will see that he begins his exposition of the discussion of theodicy by interpreting the notion of primordial fall (and sin) as a myth and opines that moral ev...