The Problem of Evil is not a single problem, but rather a family of arguments for the non-existence of God. In its least ambitious form, the argument cites the evil and suffering we find in the world ...

In line with Dostoevsky’s goal of creating a character ... come to be known in the philosophy of religion as “the problem of evil”. But Ivan’s response is unusual and somewhat perplexing ...

This existential isolation mirrors Dostoevsky’s characters ... as he attempts to rationalize his inherent proclivity to moral evil. In Ivan Karamazov, the intellectual rejection of divine ...

In short, to love some (it is, as Dostoevsky suggested ... sin lies in its recognition that our evil tendencies are not in the nature of a problem that we can rationally comprehend and ...

It is one of the most shameful stories of the post-Cold War world. One million Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutu majority in Rwanda while the West turned a blind eye. As the U.N.s Genocide ...

The 1966 high-school yearbook photograph shows a sturdy middle-aged man in a work shirt, an impressive ring of keys dangling from one hand. This was Reinhold Kulle, the head custodian at Oak Park ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login In considering Dostoevsky's 'The Idiot', a novel less easily defined in terms of plot and ideas than his other major fictional works, Sarah ...

Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Jung Gi-cheul, played by Wi Ha-jun, is about as evil as you can get. He viciously killed the gang boss he served under so he ...

Igor Golyak's "Merchant of Venice" asks, what if we treated the play like a comedy the way Shakespeare intended.

India celebrates Children's Day annually on November 14th in honor of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first Prime ...

There are two types of evil and suffering: This suggests that, because evil and suffering clearly exist in the world, either God does not exist or he cannot be omnibenevolent, omnipotent and ...

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