According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with creatures, and hence moral goodness, without allowing for possibility of evil. David Lewis points out that any defense must address “playpen problem”: why didn’t allow creatures freedom required while intervening ensure all evil-doing is victimless? More recently, James Sterba has revived playpen problem by arguing an omnipotent...

This short note provides a tentative formalization of Czeżowski’s ideas about axiological concepts: Good and Evil are conceived of as modalities rather than as predicates. A natural account of the resulting “ethical logic” appears to be very close to standard deontic logic. If one does not resolve to become an antirealist regarding moral values, a possible way out is to become a revisionist abo...

Thbee questions of Moral Hygiene, of exceptional interest to the practical psychologist, have during the quarter been brought prominently before the attention of the public. We refer (1) to the probable influence of the Divorce Court upon the morality of the nation ; (2), to the attempt made to introduce some knowledge of godliness among the nether classes of the Metropolis by holding religious...

The aim of this article is to identify factors leading to favorable attitudes toward other people from different social categories. The parts of article reflect diverse levels of altruism regulation from primary affective responses to the environment, through social norms, to abstract moral concepts related to good and evil. The latter allow understanding of the perspective of other people (inc...

The wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo were perpretrated by a radical nationalist Serbian cultural political consciousness that the American cultural political consciousness and leadership had difficulty responding to and understanding. There is a great cultural divide between a 'pathology' in Serbian culture, Milosević's radical nationalism, and a humane 'naivete' in American cultural consciou...

have happened since that period invalidate my conclusions? I think not; and all that I then affirmed about the frequency of insanity in civilized countries, I may with more reason repeat concerning ennui. The earliest description that we have of this moral malady is that given by Seneca, and is contained in a letter to his friend Seranus. He says? " The evil which torments us springs, not from ...

Purpose. The study aims to define and comprehend the phenomenon of freedom as an anthropological problem in Christian philosophical heritage A. Augustine H. Skovoroda. objectives are: a) identify main aspects philosophy Augustine; b) clarify essence specificity understanding anthropology Skovoroda; c) compare peculiarities statement by Theoretical basis. achievement purpose is based on theoreti...

How can we reconcile religion and Enlightenment in Kant? I begin by analyzing Kant’s conception of a rational the key concepts radical evil ethical community. refer to many instances overcoming work. First, show that Anthropology, cultivation society is one possibility, while Idea for Universal History , unsociable sociability plays role accomplish moral end. In Religion on other hand, only an ...

In Is a Good God Logically Possible?, James Sterba uses the analogy of just political state to develop evil-prevention principles he thinks good would follow. With assumption that is omnipotent, these entail never permit free agents bring about horrendous evil. But routinely succeed in doing so: entailing logical incompatibility between world’s evils and existence good, omnipotent God. I challe...