Sentence examples for phenomenon of evil from inspiring English sources
As AJ Ayer said, if God has constituted the world in such a way that he cannot resolve the phenomenon of evil, logically it makes no difference whether we are believers or unbelievers.
The trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his co-defendants is of vital significance because it addresses not just a group of thugs but the enduring human phenomenon of evil.
Doing justice to the phenomenon of mass evil poses a host of ticklish problems.
Hook recognized the empirical phenomena of historical evil while believing that a philosophical or theological emphasis upon these phenomena as representing the essence of mankind or determining with historical inevitability the end of civilization could be identified as a "failure of nerve" which went beyond the required acceptance of the facts about the human condition.
Plato, in the Timaeus, conceived of God as being a nonomnipotent shaper and thus accounted for the manifest element of evil in phenomena.
American sociologists Craig Reinarman and Ceres Duskin looked into this phenomenon and concluded that lurid tales of evil drug-world denizens were what people wanted to believe.
We may be used to thinking of evil as a profound phenomenon, the product of a brooding Iago figure, riven by despair.
Mass murderers usually seek the spotlight, and by exploiting a cultural phenomenon that trades on our fears of precisely the kind of evil that he represents, Holmes fastened on a horrifyingly resonant way of solidifying his own notoriety.
One of the more striking illustrations of this phenomenon is provided by Alvin Plantinga's discussions of the problem of evil.
For almost a century, the'Ndrangheta remained a local phenomenon - an evil, but essentially containable brew of rural banditry, urban racketeering and extortion.
"Sixty years after Brown, it is clear that the notion of segregation as a discrete phenomenon, an evil that could be flipped, like a switch, from on to off, by judicial edict, was deeply naïve".
