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...

Miracles and the problem of evil are two prominent areas of research within philosophy of religion. On occasion these areas converge, with God’s goodness being brought into question by the claim that either there is a lack of miracles, or there are immoral miracles. In this paper I shall highlight a second manner in which miracles and the problem of evil relate. Namely, I shall give reason as t...

For example, all the Fermat primes are evil while all the Mersenne primes > 3 are odious. Using direct calculations up to 10 we noticed that among the primes not exceeding n the evil primes are never in majority except for the cases n = 5 and n = 6. Moreover, in the considered limits the excess of the odious primes is not monotone but increases on the whole with records on primes 2, 13, 41, 67,...