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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 152–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Caroline Walker Bynum Abstract Using historical rather than philosophical means, this essay responds to a philosophical discussion of the problem of evil. Instead of constructing arguments in support of a general, theoretical position, the author examines a single, paradoxical image from the vision...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 185–197.
Published: 01 April 2004
... of the problem of evil” by being “the first to treat the problem of evil as a philosophical problem—that is, not a theological problem, a puzzle about God, but a secular problem, a puzzle about ourselves.”21 Darwin can agree with Rousseau that evil came into the world through...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 422–481.
Published: 01 August 2021
... the spiritual vocation of the biblical Jesus, and the confession scene perhaps disabuses us of that concept. The absurdities of the scene, however, do not simply negate the real philosophical problems of transcendence, spiritual psychology, and evil. The problem of forgiveness and restitution (“Bring her back...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 362–378.
Published: 01 August 2007
... in attempts their in And device. suppressive a as “truth” deploy science and gion are matched in the scientific by “illogical,” “subjective,”and “fanciful.” Both reli of exclusion. The epithets of “evil,” “infidel,”and “unclean”in the religious realm their various realms of the subaltern...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 526–547.
Published: 01 August 2002
... often imagine a world in which, on the bases of established criteria, we can tell good and evil apart. I can well understand the need to do so; I too often imag- ine such a world. But for some reason (an incurable occupational disease), I like to place...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 516–525.
Published: 01 August 2002
..., led to a reconsideration of the problem of dou- ble standards in international public opinion: one standard for the weak, another for the strong; one for the Serbs, another for the Russians. The entry of the pop- ulist Freedom Party, led...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 404–411.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Babette Babich This essay claims that, despite the explicit opposition to Darwin in his writings, Nietzsche is regarded as a Darwinist both by the educated public and, increasingly, by Anglo analytic philosophers. In part, the problem is that, while scholars correctly observe the influence...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 163–170.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Memorial for Peace and Justice .” museumandmemorial.eji.org/memorial (accessed January 7 , 2021 ). Freeman Douglas Southall . R. E. Lee: A Biography . 4 vols. New York : Scribner's Sons , 1934 – 35 . Gorra Michael . “ A Heritage of Evil .” New York Review , November 7...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 395–411.
Published: 01 August 2009
... approaching thing, same the say to said be can way, they this In philosophy. through will the and ing on theside of Schopenhaueruniversals, approaches theproblems of history Tolstoy approaches the Start problems literature. ofthrough and the will history...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 512–530.
Published: 01 August 2007
... was a professor of Holy Scriptures and had the opportunity to travel often to Israel for research, I would meet frequently with Jewish scholars. It was on those occasions that I came to understand that my approach to the problem of the relations between Judaism...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 325–344.
Published: 01 April 2017
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 269–315.
Published: 01 April 2009
... verted end”) ratherthegood. than (a“per evil prefer to tend will alone reason that and corrupted is reason that _xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_ _deus-caritas-est_en.html (accessed...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 10–18.
Published: 01 January 2015
... resolve. ever will interests ofmaterial consideration rational onthe based of negotiation noamount problems that diplomatic are there that hudnas Crusader these and at Chios, ofDrimakos ­cult and  —agreements permanent...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 505.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Barry Allen Adi Ophir, The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals , trans. Rela Mazali and Havi Carel (New York: Zone Books, 2005), 699 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 452–463.
Published: 01 August 2002
... can conceive of evil, crime, and retribution. Vattimo: Fare giustizia del diritto is an expression I used with the intention of exploiting a pun. The phrase means “to make law just,” “to fashion law into jus- tice.” But it also means...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 10–19.
Published: 01 January 2002
... what happened. No one can diminish its scale. We wish to remember. But we wish to remember for a purpose—namely, to ensure that never again will evil prevail, as it did for the millions of innocent Relations Jewish-Christian of Future...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 484.
Published: 01 August 2008
... translated and ment” discredited has theory modern of some which to extent Amer unpardonable justify problem,however, to the of is Part torture. of notably most used transgressions, been ican has translation turn its in and which theory” reality, into “traveling metaphor about...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 485–487.
Published: 01 August 2008
... translated and ment” discredited has theory modern of some which to extent Amer unpardonable justify problem,however, to the of is Part torture. of notably most used transgressions, been ican has translation turn its in and which theory” reality, into “traveling metaphor about...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 487.
Published: 01 August 2008
... translated and ment” discredited has theory modern of some which to extent Amer unpardonable justify problem,however, to the of is Part torture. of notably most used transgressions, been ican has translation turn its in and which theory” reality, into “traveling metaphor about...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (3): 488.
Published: 01 August 2008
... translated and ment” discredited has theory modern of some which to extent Amer unpardonable justify problem,however, to the of is Part torture. of notably most used transgressions, been ican has translation turn its in and which theory” reality, into “traveling metaphor about...