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Showing 1 to 20 of 441 for “"evil"”.
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Evil men
… of short stories interested in the nature of evil as it relates to the formulation of masculine identity. As means of this exploration, the collection engages a multitude of forms and narrative styles, as well as endeavors to build a broad cultural framework for storytelling.
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Regarding evil
The transnational summit, Regarding Evil, was called to assembly with the simultaneous sounding of the trumps in six sites around the world, projected simulcast. In collaboration with the six individuals who were issued the instruments, each announced their particular state of emergency and …
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Hear (no) evil, see (no) evil, speak (no) evil: artistic representations of Argentina's "Dirty War"
My dissertation utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to analyze Argentina’s “Dirty War; in it, I argue that our view of the Other is the key to not repeating the past. Literature has long been accepted as a resource for understanding culture; this dissertation moves beyond literature, and …
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Hating Evil: Understanding the Role of Evil in Interpersonal Hate
… is a protective emotional response to perceived evil, yet the dimensions by which people perceive evil have not been clearly identified. Research has also indicated that it is evil to feel hate, which presents an interesting paradox: if hate protects us from evil, then how can it be evil to feel …
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God and Gratuitous Evil
… for atheism as follows: (1) There seem to be evils God could have prevented without losing a greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse, and (2) God would not allow such evils. This dissertation examines (2), the "No Gratuitous Evil Thesis," and its role in Rowe's argument. In …
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Evil Becomes Her: Prostitution's Transition from Necessary to Social Evil in 19th Century America
… prostitution as immediately declared a “social evil” or briefly mentions why Americans assigned it such a role. While correct that it eventually did become a “social evil,” the evolution of discourse relating to prostitution is a bit more complex. This thesis provides a survey of this evolution …
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Escape from the Evil Empire
… women’s chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original text speaks of unwanted souls in a nation from which they must escape. Screaming women, textpainting, heavy percussion, dissonance, …
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The Pragmatic Problem of Evil
… namely, “Is the Landscape of the Problem of Evil at an Impasse?” and “A Pragmatic Argument against Reliance in God to Prevent Horrendous Evils.” The first part of this paper completes an analysis of formulations around the problem of evil, analysis of logical and evidential arguments from …
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Evil and the Ontological Disproof
… ought to be combined with the problem of evil, and that the resulting synthesis of the two arguments is far more powerful than either element could be alone. The argument is this: if God exists, then he exists necessarily. This necessary existence entails that the mere possibility of a …
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Aspects of Evil in Seneca's Tragedies
This thesis explores the theme of evil in Senecan tragedy through the prism of his Stoic principles, as they are illustrated in his philosophic treatises, with special reference to de ira, de clementia, and naturales quaestiones. The introduction defines evil and situates this study in the …
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Towards a Jurisprudence of Evil Law
… a first comprehensive account of the nature of evil law. It consolidates existing philosophical discussions associated with evil law and enriches these debates by testing their arguments against the historical examples of the evil legal systems of Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, as well …
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"This Beautiful Evil": The Connection between Women, the Natural World, Female Sexuality, and Evil in Western Tradition
… how images of women, nature, sexuality, and evil are structured within a cultural framework of Western tradition: myths and folktales, religious, philosophical, and scientific works, and film.
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… refers to the lands of Mordor as the place where evil never sleeps. Cinematic evil itself never sleeps, always arising in new forms, to the extent that there exist as many types of evil as there are films. This thesis examines this constantly shifting construction of evil in American popular …
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Mourning, Evil and Grace: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach
This dissertation compares the debates on evil and grace between Augustine, Pelagius, and Manichean Gnosticism with those between Freud, Jung, Fromm, and Jaspers. Through a phenomenological understanding of mourniing and the hermeneutical interpretation of both fourth century theologians and …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
… with animalistic attributes, and is a thing of evil, undeserving of sympathy. In the 1870’s this type of vampire often took the form of a woman, more subtle and clever than her male counterparts but no less evil. Bram Stoker’s Dracula altered vampire fiction for decades to come. Dracula was a …
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Ronald Reagan's 1983 "Evil Empire" speech: A rhetorical analysis
… delivering what is now referred to as his "Evil Empire" speech. Hoping to reestablish his commitment to conservative values and encourage the audience to oppose a nuclear freeze, Reagan condemned the Soviet Union as the "focus of evil" in the modern world and urged the audience to resist the …
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Kant's Change of Heart: Radical Evil and Moral Transformation
… makes the claim that all humans are radically evil, both by nature and through a free choice. This radical evil, which is the state of having a Gesinnung (disposition) that commits oneself to prioritizing incentives of inclination above incentives of duty, throws into question whether humans …
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Reframing theories of evil: ethics, violence and the state
… powerful in providing us venues to think about evil, and how do they contribute to making “the social production and distribution of evil” visible or invisible? In its everyday usage, evil is a category that is often ascribed retrospectively, named after the event, signaling the occurrence of …
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Radical Evil and Responsibility in Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophical Anthropology
… employed to clarify the Kantian idea of radical evil in relation to Paul Ricoeur’s understanding of the self as becoming. Despite the determined regularity of the natural world, Kant posits a human freedom that can be understood along the lines of our first person experience. By shifting from …
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