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Leslie's answer to the problem of evil is, in effect, to argue that there may well be no unabsorbed evils, when we take account of the value of lives that involve real choices against a background of discoverable causal regularities--whether those choices are causally... For if goodness, ethical equality is the sole creative principle and the only explanation why there is any world at all, we can indeed ask, Whence, then, is evil It would obviously be less satisfactory, because less simple, to admit that value is, even in principle, only a partial explanation of what there is, that there is also an element of the sheer unexplained brute fact, of things just happening to be there; for the recognition of such unexplained brute facts was the rejected alternative to the hypothesis that ethical norms are creative (Leslie 43)....
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This is perhaps because we cannot single out one person who is the most knowledgeable in every field and similarly we cannot select a single person who has the utmost power over every other human being in the world.... This essay "Knowledge Versus Power" discusses Francis Bacon's statement that knowledge and human power are synonymous since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect....
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In a stage-like fashion, the story of Job presents role players: the devil, three counsellors (Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar), and Jahweh the object of understanding in life's mystery of evil in the world.... To impute sin on those who suffer is not right; the existence of evil is a mystery most difficult for man to understand.... Their fault was not stated in specific terms, but it can be deduced that they were overzealous for Jahweh, and judged Job to have sinned thus deserving evil as a punishment in life....
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As such, Corrigan is placed in a setting of the everyday life filled with tragedies and horrors in the streets of New York yet, he is expected to come out after defeating evil.... The novel is set in an political and social environment filled with a lot of evils such Colum McCann's “Let the Great world Spin” Themes are derived meaning from a literary work based on the analysis of characters.... Colum McCann's “Let the Great world Spin” utilizes the character of John Corrrigan to present major themes his literary work....
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While he was walking towards the ceremony, he assumed that his wife was in the hands of evil with a fluttering pink ribbon in the air, as the author states: “But something fluttered lightly down through the air and caught on the branch of a tree.... On a surface level of this story a person can extract the theme, that it is the fight between good and the evil, through which protagonist had to gone through.... This can illustrate so many things, that either his wife is in evil's control or she was left alone in the town....
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This coursework "The Semai of Malaysia" focuses on the Semai of Malaysia that is unique in a way from other groups or tribes of the American society.... What makes them different are their beliefs, kinship and health issues; these aspects have made them survive for many years.... hellip; It is believed that the Semai tribe is what remained from the original ancient populations of South East Asia, who then belong to the Senoi ethnic groups....
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The author of the "How Does Swinburne Respond to the Problem of evil and Is His Response Successful" argues that Swinburne although engages in multiple kinds of evil doesn't really convince the reader that the suffering in today's world is for some greater good.... Hence, in a moment of contemplation and reason, any believer must be able to answer this question of the existence of evil.... He says that the lack of comfort and opulence is not the cause of evil, because God as big as a creator he is, can always create more....
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Another important aspect of witchcraft and paganism is that people who follow it do not worship evil forces; they consider mother earth very important and usually worship mother earth.... This coursework "Witchcraft and Paganism" sheds light upon witchcraft and paganism since 1815....
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