The Worst Of Evils

Author : Thomas Dormandy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300113226

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This riveting book takes the reader around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain. With colorful stories and sometimes frightening anecdotes, Dr. Thomas Dormandy describes a checkered progression of breakthroughs, haphazard experiments, ignorant attitudes, and surprising developments in human efforts to control pain. Attitudes toward pain and its perception have changed, as have the means of pain relief and scientific understanding. Dr. Dormandy offers a thoroughly fascinating, multi-cultural history that culminates with a discussion of today’s successes--and failures--in the struggle against pain. The book’s exploration is fused with accounts of the development of specific methods of pain relief, including the use of alcohol, plants, hypnosis, religious faith, stoic attitudes, local anesthesia, general anesthesia, and modern analgesics. Dr. Dormandy also looks at the most recent advances in pain clinics and palliative care for patients with terminal disease as well as the prospects for loosening pain’s grip in the future.

Author : Bruce R. Reichenbach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498292856

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Divine Providence by Bruce R. Reichenbach Pdf

We ask God to involve himself providentially in our lives, yet we cherish our freedom to choose and act. Employing both theological reflection and philosophical analysis, the author explores how to resolve the interesting and provocative puzzles arising from these seemingly conflicting desires. He inquires what sovereignty means and how sovereigns balance their power and prerogatives with the free responses of their subjects. Since we are physically embodied in a physical world, we also need to ask how this is compatible with our being free agents. Providence raises questions about God's fundamental attributes. The author considers what it means to affirm God's goodness as logically contingent, how being almighty interfaces with God's self-limitation, and the persistent problems that arise from claiming that God foreknows the future. Discussion of these divine properties spills over into the related issues of why God allows, or even causes, pain and suffering; why, if God is all-knowing, we need to petition God repeatedly and encounter so many unanswered prayers; and how miracles, as ways God acts in the world, are possible and knowable. Throughout, the author looks at Scripture and attends to how providence deepens our understanding of God and enriches our lives.

Author : Marilyn McCord Adams
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501735929

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Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God by Marilyn McCord Adams Pdf

When confronted by horrendous evil, even the most pious believer may question not only life's worth but also God's power and goodness. A distinguished philosopher and a practicing minister, Marilyn McCord Adams has written a highly original work on a fundamental dilemma of Christian thought—how to reconcile faith in God with the evils that afflict human beings. Adams argues that much of the discussion in analytic philosophy of religion over the last forty years has offered too narrow an understanding of the problem. The ground rules accepted for the discussion have usually led philosophers to avert their gaze from the worst—horrendous—evils and their devastating impact on human lives. They have agreed to debate the issue on the basis of religion-neutral values, and have focused on morals, an approach that—Adams claims—is inadequate for formulating and solving the problem of horrendous evils. She emphasizes instead the fruitfulness of other evaluative categories such as purity and defilement, honor and shame, and aesthetics. If redirected, philosophical reflection on evil can, Adams's book demonstrates, provide a valuable approach not only to theories of God and evil but also to pastoral care.

Author : Sheila Butler
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781510424715

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My Revision Notes AQA A-level Religious Studies: Paper 1 Philosophy of religion and ethics by Sheila Butler Pdf

Target success in AQA A-level Religious Studies with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide you can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes you can: - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage - Test understanding and identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and answers - Improve exam technique through practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid

Author : Ferguson Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484001222

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Finding her is only the beginning...Keir Harper finds people. He knows how they think and he knows where they run to.So when Janet Bell goes into hiding to escape her violent ex-boyfriend, her father hires Harper to track her down before her ex does.It looks like an easy payday, but Harper's hunt for the missing girl uncovers a terrifying secret that has been stalking the streets of Glasgow for months. A secret even the police have kept hidden. A secret that awakens painful memories of another missing girl: one who never made it home.Harper soon discovers that finding Janet is only the beginning of a journey into the very depths of evil.As he gets closer to the truth Harper finds himself trapped between warring criminal gangs, a cold-blooded hitman waiting for him to step out of line, and a police officer determined to put him behind bars at any cost.But someone else is watching Harper too. Someone far worse...

Author : Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Women
ISBN : HARVARD:RSMCVL

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Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Pdf

Author : Alfred Edward Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1929
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004944919

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The Problem of Evil by Alfred Edward Taylor Pdf

Author : Claudia Card
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139491709

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Confronting Evils by Claudia Card Pdf

In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044028715308

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An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster Pdf

Author : Alexander Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Crime
ISBN : UOM:39015025903231

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Social Evils by Alexander Thomson Pdf

Author : Harold Richard BUSH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021861188

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David's choice of three evils. “The judgments of God and the vengeance of man.” A sermon [on 2 Sam. xxiv. 13, 14] on the distress in the Cotton Districts. By a Layman [Harold Richard Bush]. by Harold Richard BUSH Pdf

Author : Guy Walters
Publisher : Crown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307592484

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Hunting Evil by Guy Walters Pdf

Already acclaimed in England as "first-rate" (The Sunday Times); “a model of meticulous, courageous and path-breaking scholarship"(Literary Review); and "absorbing and thoroughly gripping… deserves a lasting place among histories of the war.” (The Sunday Telegraph), Hunting Evil is the first complete and definitive account of how the Nazis escaped and were pursued and captured -- or managed to live long lives as fugitives. At the end of the Second World War, an estimated 30,000 Nazi war criminals fled from justice, including some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi Party. Many of them have names that resonate deeply in twentieth-century history -- Eichmann, Mengele, Martin Bormann, and Klaus Barbie -- not just for the monstrosity of their crimes, but also because of the shadowy nature of their post-war existence, holed up in the depths of Latin America, always one step ahead of their pursuers. Aided and abetted by prominent people throughout Europe, they hid in foreboding castles high in the Austrian alps, and were taken in by shady Argentine secret agents. The attempts to bring them to justice are no less dramatic, featuring vengeful Holocaust survivors, inept politicians, and daring plots to kidnap or assassinate the fugitives. In this exhaustively researched and compellingly written work of World War II history and investigative reporting, journalist and novelist Guy Walters gives a comprehensive account of one of the most shocking and important aspects of the war: how the most notorious Nazi war criminals escaped justice, how they were pursued, captured or able to remain free until their natural deaths and how the Nazis were assisted while they were on the run by "helpers" ranging from a Vatican bishop to a British camel doctor, and even members of Western intelligence services. Based on all new interviews with Nazi hunters and former Nazis and intelligence agents, travels along the actual escape routes, and archival research in Germany, Britain, the United States, Austria, and Italy, Hunting Evil authoritatively debunks much of what has previously been understood about Nazis and Nazi hunters in the post war era, including myths about the alleged “Spider” and “Odessa” escape networks and the surprising truth about the world's most legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. From its haunting chronicle of the monstrous mass murders the Nazis perpetrated and the murky details of their postwar existence to the challenges of hunting them down, Hunting Evil is a monumental work of nonfiction written with the pacing and intrigue of a thriller.

Author : afterwards D'ARUSMONT WRIGHT (Frances)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023674845

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A Lecture on existing Evils and their Remedy: delivered ... to the citizens of Philadelphia, June 2, 1829 by afterwards D'ARUSMONT WRIGHT (Frances) Pdf

Author : Greville John Chester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590224357

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Statute fairs: their evils and their remedy [a sermon]. by Greville John Chester Pdf

Author : Alexander THOMSON (of Banchory.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023583804

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Social Evils: their causes and their cure by Alexander THOMSON (of Banchory.) Pdf