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4 days ago · Arendt explained the tyranny using Kant's phrase "radical evil", by which their victims became "superfluous people". [245] [246] In later editions she enlarged the text [247] to include her work on "Ideology and Terror: A novel form of government" [241] and the Hungarian Revolution , but then published the latter separately.
5 days ago · The problem of evil is generally formulated in two forms: the logical problem of evil and the evidential problem of evil. The logical form of the argument tries to show a logical impossibility in the coexistence of a god and evil, [2] [9] while the evidential form tries to show that given the evil in the world, it is improbable that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and a wholly good god. [3]
5 days ago · Nondualism includes a number of philosophical and spiritual traditions that emphasize the absence of fundamental duality or separation in existence. [1] This viewpoint questions the boundaries conventionally imposed between self and other, mind and body, observer and observed, [2] and other dichotomies that shape our perception of reality.
6 days ago · In this argument and in the problem of evil itself, evil is understood to encompass both moral evil (caused by free human actions) and natural evil (caused by natural phenomena such as disease, earthquakes, and floods). Most thinkers, however, have found this argument too simple, since it does not recognize cases in which eliminating one evil ...
Jun 12, 2024 · The contemporary philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), the greatest exponent of the discussion of the banality of evil, posits that there is radical evil (present in people at the top who perpetrate evil and symbolized by the hegemonic group of Nazi leaders in the context World War II) and banal evil; the latter is largely responsible for maintaining and strengthening the former and comprises a mass that closes its eyes and accepts radical evil (according to the philosopher, banal evil is ...
Jun 3, 2024 · For the sake of argument, however, let’s stipulate that the firebombings of Dresden and Tokyo were indispensable to Allied victory, and therefore morally justified, given the radical evil of ...
Jun 3, 2024 · Following is a list of publishers and periodicals relevant to Kant’s publishing activity, based in part on Meckelburg [1840], Hagen [1850b], Dreher [1896], Forstreuter [1932], Rehberg [1942], Gause [1996, 2: 127-31, 232-43], and Kohnen [1994]. Dietzsch [2003, 125-30] offers a helpful discussion of the censoring of publications in Könïgsberg ...
