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Out of such considerations of evil and thoughtlessness, along with close philosophical examinations of concepts like thinking, will and judgment, Arendt believed that a foundation for moral law could be found.
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As one would expect in a consideration of evil, Hannah Arendt is here, but so is Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the South African psychologist whose encounter with a torturer nicknamed "Prime Evil" is the perfect counterpoint to Arendt's encounter with Eichmann.
Trilling's work took readers outside the traditional insight of literary criticism into essentially philosophical considerations of good and evil, nature and civilization, commitment and evasion.
There is a massive classical and contemporary literature on the problem of evil; consideration of formulations of the argument from evil and of attempts to reconcile the existence of evil and the existence of an absolutely perfect being is beyond the scope of this article.
Surely, millions of people have drifted away from the religion of their forebears after consideration of such matters as the problem of evil, the unreliability of Biblical accounts, the silence or absence of God, the uselessness of petitionary prayer.
Concerns and lengthy moral considerations hinder this process and thus block the progress of evil thoughts".
The Non-starter thesis – that evil does not even provide a prima facie reason against theism that would need to be countered by skeptical considerations – is false when applied to the Common Sense Problem of Evil.
Then these considerations might help to defend against arguments based on the existence of evil.
Consideration of any present-day introductory textbook of philosophy reveals that the problem of evil in contemporary philosophy is standardly regarded as an argument for atheism.
The Soviet Union was an evil empire; Osama is evil; the axis of evil is evil.
Take the "problem" of evil.
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