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 ...

Dostoevsky, the Russian author ... planting the seeds for what would later be termed the "logical problem of evil." This form of the problem posits that the coexistence of God and evil is logically ...

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 ...

In September 1865, Fyodor Dostoevsky reached his lowest ebb. The 43-year-old Russian was holed up in a cheap hotel room in Wiesbaden, the spa town in central Germany where he had come to recoup ...

When I was in high school, I took a psychology class. While the teacher was animated and interesting, there was one big problem: He could never pronounce my name right. Every time he took role ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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