Browsing by Subject "BJ1401"

Browsing by Subject "BJ1401"

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    The bad, the evil, and the monstrous 
    Fogarty, Alyssia (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)
    This thesis focuses on defending the conceptual distinction between evil persons and irredeemable monsters. I argue that applying the comparative methodology to borderline cases can make sense of the intuition that evil ...

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    Haunted by God : the privation theory and existence itself 
    Makan, Ikranrin (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2019)
    My aim is to show that if the privation theory of evil is true, then at any moment in which there is actual evil in the world necessarily there exists a thing whose essence is identical to its existence, namely, Existence ...

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    Towards a robust theory of evil character 
    Richter, Aaron (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)
    This thesis demonstrates that current theories of evil character, specifically those asserted by John Kekes, Colin McGinn, Daniel Haybron, Peter Brian Barry, and Luke Russell, are not robust accounts of evil character. A ...