Sentence examples for natural evil from inspiring English sources

They harked back to the Lisbon earthquake, seeming like a "natural evil" in their swift horror.

His sophisticated metaphysics of evil confirms our intuitive response of incomprehension in the face of gratuitous brutality, or of senseless "natural" evil like a child's cancer.

The Swiss duo, dressed, for reasons best known to themselves, as a bear and a rat, wander the Bernese Oberland meditating on metaphysics and the existence of natural evil.

This wave, reflecting an engagement with the problem of natural evil, involved a decay in the natural theology of Deism such that it merged eventually with the stream that led to materialistic atheism.

Gradually, Ms. Neiman says, the idea of a catastrophe being a "natural evil" disappeared; its divorce from the notion of "moral evil" became "part of the meaning of modernity".

In the modern world the distinction between "moral" and "natural" evil is less clear than it used to be, since human actions contribute to environmental problems like famines, droughts, floods and epidemics.

If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big, mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible for cancer, meningitis, millions of spontaneous abortions every day, mass killings of people in floods and earthquakes - and too great a mountain of other natural evils to list besides.

Hurricanes and toothaches are examples of natural evils.

For instance, natural evils or apparently suboptimal designs might suggest e.g., an amateur designer or a committee of designers.

Natural evils are bad states of affairs which do not result from the intentions or negligence of moral agents.

Fourthly, what natural evils a world contains depends not just on the laws, but also on the initial, or boundary conditions.