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Proof of God's Existence in the Meditations of Rene Descartes

that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...

Meditations on First Philosophy and Systemic Doubt of Rene Descartes

highest truth and certainty I have learned either from the senses or through the senses" (Descartes 29). But he is quick to note ...

Christian Views on Evil

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

The Parallels Between the Progressive Era and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

the bosses, the police, the politicians, and a myriad of other players. Sinclair reveals a dream which is interlaced by theft, pr...

Evil Temptation in 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

were full of all the fire and brimstone of a religious fanatic. Whenever evil would cross his path, such as in the form of an omi...

Othello by William Shakespeare and 3 Different Perspectives

directors. Because of the intimacy between stage performers and the audience, Shakespeares prose is able to serve as a feature pe...

Fate in Bleak House by Charles Dickens

as well. Greed and ambition get in the way of the characters doing what is right, and innocent children become victims of a syste...

Rewriting History with William Shakespeare's 'Richard the Third'

who stood in his path to the English throne, was so memorable that his work of fiction has become accepted as historical fact. Ho...

Evil as Defined by 19th Century English Romantic Poet William Blake

abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...

Primary Themes of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

much fuller understanding of the feelings and motivations of his fellow men, which is reflected in his sermons. As noted by Eaton ...

The Evil of Ambition

in the Aristotelian sense of the word: it shows us a great man doomed by a tragic flaw, in this case ambition. This paper discusse...

The Problem of Evil and Augustine’s Idea of Free Choice

thinkers in the history of Christianity, and one of the most influential. After a youth spent in a frank enjoyment of sensual plea...

The Problem of Evil - A Review

Errol Harris revisits a question that has stumped philosophers, theologians and ordinary folks for centuries: if God is good, how ...

Government by Homicide

at the beginning of the play that bears his name, grows increasingly evil throughout the drama. This paper argues that his crime i...

The Problem of Evil: An Overview

refers to the textbook that you provided links to. The brief said to reference this book, but your links gave no indication of the...

IS MCDONALD'S CORP. ETHICAL?

to hiring diverse employees - but at the cost of satisfying the buying public. What is the truth here? Like all major corpo...

How to Watch Films

the color palette, the costumes; all of these come together to produce the picture that the director wants us to see. This is why ...

Macbeth: Villain or Not?

we see him. At a military camp of King Duncans, a soldier is brought in who tells of the battle in which he was injured, and in wh...

The Origin of Evil

Testament. The general thought is that Moses wrote these texts during the forty years of the Exodus which would have been between ...

Evil in Modern Thought

Thought. Author: Susan Neiman). As it pertains to what the author offers up, in similar respects concerning human nature, regardi...

Marching to War with Mel Gibson

Weapon movie directed by Norman Rockwell" (Mitchell). Thats a very good, if snarky, description. That being the case, its not sur...

Satan & Frankenstein’s Monster

repulsive in appearance and Satan was transformed by his own evil, becoming increasing ugly as the poem proceeds. As this suggests...

Argument: Blaise Pascal’s Statement about Religion and Evil is Wrong

..., 2008). Blair sharply differentiated religious faith and extremism, noting that in the past decade, we have seen numerous "ac...

Queen Gertrude in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

wicked wit, and gifts that have the power, So to seduce!--won to his shameful lust, The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen" (A...

Evil in C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra

beings. But there arrives a man, Weston, who seems possessed by a demon and tries to convince Tinidril to sleep on fixed...

Benefits Of Profiling In Fighting Terrorism

to become terrorists also share certain characteristics, traits, and backgrounds. One of the challenges in arguing for the pract...

Edward Jones/The Known World

As this suggests, the novel abounds in paradoxes. Moses, the cruel overseer, did not murder his wife and child, but actually sent ...

Jealousy in Othello

tells Desdemonas father that he must act quickly else "youll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse" (I.1.112-113). As p...

Mark 1:21-28/Healing in Capernaum

they can trust to help them. Do they have the authority, that is, the expertise necessarily to help them leave darkness and embra...

Anatole France: “The Gods Will Have Blood”

finally suspended the rule of law leading to the massacre of the aristocracy; it was class warfare at its ugliest. In a sense, one...