is one of which claims that a perfectly loving and omnipotent God cannot exist in a reality that includes evil. If God were omnipotent then God would posses the power to avert evil and promote goodness. If God perfectly loved‚ then God would desire that this would be so. Evil would be abolished and goodness would reign supreme. However‚ the quandary still remains that evil exists. Augustine was intensely concerned to hold on to these beliefs of God’s nature: God’s omnipotence‚ immutability‚ omniscience
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Chapter I Introduction and Review of Related Literature In the article; religion as a Dimension in Man’s spiritual Life by Paul Tillich‚ I came across with this phrase that‚ “With respect to God‚ man is a receptive and only receptive. He has no freedom to relate to the doctrine of the Bondage of the Will.” I get enterested to the word Will which I think present in the human mind and perhaps‚ in God. In this paper‚ I want to discuss and present the difference between the will ‘of God’ and of
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confession would have saved his life but sell out his innocent friends‚ Instead he chose to die with them. This act is believable because Proctor had a good name in Salem before he admitted to Lechery in the court. Proctor threw away his sense of goodness when he had sexual relations with Abigail Williams. The guilt he was feeling was literally eating at him‚ he felt he was going to Hell. John Proctor had a good name in Salem‚ he is high in the social tree of Salem. He has the simple life of a farmer
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hardened. Railton is concerned with generic/non-moral goodness or intrinsic value. The philosophical defense of fact/value distinction consists of the arguments from rational determinability‚ internalism‚ and the argument from “queer-ness.” Rational determinability are factual disputes that can be resolved by appealing to reason and experience‚ but facts are hard. Internalism and instrumentalism supports the fact and value distinction. Thinking of goodness can be similarly relative to “nutritiveness‚” that
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Question: Compare and contrast two rulers; Plato’s "Philosopher Kings" and Machiavelli’s “Prince" in terms of their understanding of goodness of their citizens and their character. Who would you support more? Why? Think of specific areas of comparison and introduce them in a table of at least five lines with their referencing chapter numbers. Refer to Plato’s Republic‚ Books IV and VII and Machiavelli’s The Prince‚ Chapters from 15 to 23. Step 1 * Explaining the basic concepts of Philosopher
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In Nietzsche’s First Essay in “Genealogy of Morals‚” he analyzes the history and evolution behind the meanings of “good” and “bad” and‚ later‚ “good” and “evil.” He begins by recognizing that‚ originally‚ goodness was determined by the “noble‚ powerful [and] high-stationed” elites‚ as opposed to who was “bad”—the commoners‚ the “low-minded…plebeian(s)” (113). This split between both classes creates a “pathos of distance‚” where the upper-class seizes the opportunity to “create values and to coin
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Introduction “A hero deserves admiration due to his inherent goodness. If he succumbs to unmerited suffering‚ he becomes a tragic hero.”_1 In Aristotle’s own words‚ “a man cannot become a hero until he can see the root of his own downfall.” This statement gives the gist of Aristotle’s concept of a tragic hero. A hero must fall from grace and must be able to clearly comprehend the cause of his fall. The “fall” must take place due to an error in judgement that arises out of some flaw (hamartia)
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or a human strive for beautiful sensations‚ or a wish for giving and sharing goodness with others‚ love regulates and modifies human lives‚ defining all kinds of relationships between human beings. After reading and discussing Plato’s Symposium‚ Apology and Crito‚ my opinion and knowledge about love has broaden and strengthen because of a complementary understanding about how love is innate in humans‚ how beauty‚ goodness and love are all interrelated‚ and how God’s gift of the sexual aspect of love
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experience‚ but in the form of dreams while also making use of musical and biblical imagery. The poem shows the potential and possibilities of a child’s youth and imagination symbolized by sunlight trapped in a glass jar. The ‘jar of light’ represents the goodness an innocence of youth‚ which the boy is ‘hoping to keep’‚ but also deeply grieves their briefness and fragility. It explores the trauma and betrayal experienced by a child due to his naivety‚ resulting in destruction of hope and loss of innocence
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bachelor is sitting on the same train observing the Aunt and her young charges. He offers to tell them a story. The bachelor’s story is about a girl who is "horribly good‚" so good that she wore[wo:] on her dress three medals for goodness. As a further reward for her goodness‚ the girl is invited to visit the park that belongs to the local Prince. As the girl strolls through the park‚ she is attacked by a wolf. The girl hides behind a bush‚ but the wolf eventually locates her when her medals click against
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