Sentence examples for physical evil from inspiring English sources
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people".
Finally, the physical good of pleasure connects to the physical evil of pain (T §21, p. 136).
Without knowledge, action and the effort to promote the perfection of others do not necessarily meet with success and may even backfire, leading to greater physical evil.
Physical evil (or natural evil) is suffering brought about by the natural world (such as earthquakes); Leibniz believed that this is a penalty for guilt and exists to prevent a greater evil.
When times go dark, we talk our way around physical evils: "jobs" for xenophobic roundups, "freedom" for the acquisition of murderous arms.
The positive function of this representation of God lies in the fact that, without diminishing either the power or the justice of the total divinity, it enables people to find an answer for the vexing question of theodicy the problem of affirming divine justice and goodness in the face of physical and moral evil (see also evil, problem of).
Many critics have seen Grendel as the embodiment of the physical and moral evil of heathenism.
Now that Ashton Kutcher is a swingin' bachelor once again, Onion News Network's Starfix reports that he has not been shy in bringing around a mysterious metallic disc that some speculate is the physical manifestation of evil itself.
A disease condition locally referred to as "a sram," was severally perceived as a physical manifestation of evil spiritual attacks on a pregnant woman.
Professor Coase's first insight is that pollution is not a simple matter of physical invasion or evil-doing.
