Leszek Kołakowski had a keen interest in the phenomenon of evil, and many his works address this topic. made attempts to explore origin human experiences changes beliefs about evil European consciousness throughout ages, he commented on proposition that world should be defined as free evil. In works, was examined through lens two contextual perspectives: episteme sacrum. This article explores w...

We can distinguish the evil person in two ways. One is to pick out some trait, or narrow cluster of traits, and argue that individuals are evil if they possess those traits to a sufficiently extreme degree. Call theories that characterize evil in this manner extremity views. The second method takes evil to consist in being vicious, not just in one respect, but thoroughly or consistently. Call t...

Abstract One can readily conceive of worlds horrendous, gratuitous suffering. Moreover, such seem possible. For classical theists, however, God, amongst other things, is perfectly good. So, the question arises: for theists are evil possible? Many have said no. This modal problem evil. Herein, I discuss a related problem: Lewisian theism. theism conjunction Lewis’s realism and theism, leading th...

Abstract We argue that the problem of evil, logically, stems from unequal binary characterizes bivalent structure Western discourses in philosophy religion. This pits God against devil, but also value good evil they are believed to represent. The difficulty is those who subscribe creationism, for example, hold as an omniscient, omnipotent, and morally perfect entity created everything. Ironical...

Part and parcel of the eschatology three Abrahamic faiths is belief that sin evil will be eliminated upon consummation God’s kingdom on earth. Not only do these beliefs affirm God ultimately “deal” with problem evil, but no more. I refer to this eschatological as “the elimination evil” (EOE). The EOE has important implications for how one understands ontology time. In paper, contribute discussi...