Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The devilish has long been integral to myths, legends, and folklore, firmly located in the relationships between good and evil, and selves and others. But how are ideas of evil constructed in current times and framed by contemporary social discourses? Modern Folk Devils builds on and works with Stanley Cohen’s theory on folk devils and moral panics to discuss the constructions of evil. The authors present an array of case-studies that illustrate how the notion of folk devils nowadays comes into play and animates ideas of otherness and evil throughout the world. Examining current fears and perceived threats, this volume investigates and analyzes how and why these devils are constructed. The chapters discuss how the devilish may take on many different forms: sometimes they exist only as a potential threat, other times they are a single individual or phenomenon or a visible group, such as refugees, technocrats, Roma, hipsters, LGBT groups, and rightwing politicians. Folk devils themselves are also given a voice to offer an essential complementary perspective on how panics become exaggerated, facts distorted, and problems acutely angled.;Bringing together researchers from anthropology, sociology, political studies, ethnology, and criminology, the contributions examine cases from across the world spanning from Europe to Asia and Oceania.

Good and evil. --- Evil --- Wickedness --- Ethics --- Philosophy --- Polarity --- Religious thought --- Public fear --- Exclusion --- Stigmatization --- Moral panic --- Otherness --- Folk devils

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

'Non-Identity Theodicy' is as an original response to the problem of evil. It constructs an ethical framework for theodicy by sketching four cases of human action where horrendous evils are either caused, permitted, or risked, either for pure benefit or for harm avoidance.

Theodicy --- Good and evil --- Religious aspects --- Evil, Problem of (Theology) --- God --- Permissive will of God --- Problem of evil (Theology) --- Permissive will --- Will, Permissive --- Theodicy. --- Religious aspects.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint addresses in a novel format the major topics and themes of contemporary metaethics, the study of the analysis of moral thought and judgement. Metathetics is less concerned with what practices are right or wrong than with what we mean by 'right' and 'wrong.' Looking at a wide spectrum of topics including moral language, realism and anti-realism, reasons and motives, relativism, and moral progress, this book engages students and general readers in order to enhance their understanding of morality and moral discourse as cultural practices. Catherine Wilson innovatively employs a first-person narrator to report step-by-step an individual's reflections, beginning from a position of radical scepticism, on the possibility of objective moral knowledge. The reader is invited to follow along with this reasoning, and to challenge or agree with each major point. Incrementally, the narrator is led to certain definite conclusions about 'oughts' and norms in connection with self-interest, prudence, social norms, and finally morality. Scepticism is overcome, and the narrator arrives at a good understanding of how moral knowledge and moral progress are possible, though frequently long in coming. Accessibly written, Metaethics from a First Person Standpoint presupposes no prior training in philosophy and is a must-read for philosophers, students and general readers interested in gaining a better understanding of morality as a personal philosophical quest."--Publisher's website.

Metaethics. --- Ethics. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Meta-ethics --- Ethics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- moral judgement --- moral knowledge --- metaethics --- moral philosophy --- Abortion --- Ethical egoism --- Good and evil --- Human

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of the crucial distinction between 'thin' and 'thick' concepts, which is fundamental to many debates in ethics, aesthetics and epistemology.

Evaluation. --- Assessment --- Research --- Ethics. --- Metaethics. --- Meta-ethics --- Ethics --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- descriptive content --- evaluation --- ethics --- thick concepts --- thin concepts --- aesthetics --- Genus --- Good and evil --- Non-cognitivism --- Semantics --- Separation of church and state --- Species

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is famous for polemic against Islamic philosophy, theology and rationalizing mysticism, but his positive theological contribution has not been well understood. This comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy helps to rectify this lack. Exposition and analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s writings on God’s justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine show that he articulates a theodicy of optimism in which God in His essence perpetually wills the best possible world from eternity. This sets Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy apart from Ashʿarī divine voluntarism, the free-will theodicy of the Muʿtazilīs, and the essentially timeless God of other optimists like Ibn Sīnā and Ibn ʿArabī.

Ibn Taym ̄iyah, Ahmad ibn &#x2018Abd al-Hal ̄im, 1263-1328. --- Theodicy -- Biblical teaching. --- Theodicy. --- God (Islam) --- Good and evil --- Islam --- Optimism. --- History of doctrines. --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Doctrines. --- Ibn Taymīyah, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, --- Evil, Problem of (Theology) --- God --- Permissive will of God --- Problem of evil (Theology) --- Allah --- Monotheism (Islam) --- Dogma, Islamic --- Islamic theology --- Kalam --- Muslim theology --- Theology, Islamic --- Theology, Muslim --- Good and evil (Islam) --- Permissive will --- Will, Permissive --- Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn Taymīyah, --- Ḥarrānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, --- Ibn Taymīyah, Taqī al-Dīn, --- Taqijuddin Ibnu Taimyah, --- Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm al-Ḥarrānī, --- Taqī al-Dīn ibn Taymīyah, --- Ibnu Taimiyah, Taqijuddin, --- Ibn Taymīyah, --- Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyya, --- Ibn Taymiyya, Taqi al-Din Ahmad, --- Ibn Taymiyya, --- Ibn Taimiyyah, --- Ibn Taymiyyah, --- Ibn Taimiyah, --- Ibn-i Taimīyah, --- Ibn-e-Taimiya, --- Ibne Taimiyah, --- أبن تيميه، أحمد بن عبدالحليم --- أبي العباس تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحايم ابن تيمية الحراني --- أحمد بن تيمية --- أحمد بن عبد الحليم --- أحمد بن عبد الحليم ابن تيمية، --- أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية --- إبن تيمية، احمد بن عبد الحليم --- إبن تيمية، احمد عبد الحليم --- إبن تيميه، أحمد بن عبد الحليم --- ابن تمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم --- ابن تيمية، أحمد --- ابن تيمية، أحمد ابن عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن عبد السلام --- ابن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيمية، أحمد عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيمية، احمد ابن عبدالحليم، --- ابن تيمية، احمد بن عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيمية، محمد بن عبد الحليم --- ابن تيميه، أحمد بن عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيميه، احمدابن عبدالحليم --- بن تيمية، أحمد ابن عبد الحليم، --- بن تيمية، أحمد بن الحليم، --- بن تيمية، أحمد بن عبد الحليم، --- بن تيمية، احمد بن عبد الحليم، --- تقي الدين أبي العباس أحمد بن تيمية --- تقي الدين أحمد بن تيمية --- تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية --- تقي الدين ابو العباس احمد بن عبد الحليم بن تيمية --- Ibn-i Taimiyah al-Ḥarānī, Aḥmad bin ʻAbdulḥalīm, --- ابن تيميه الحرانى، احمد بن عبد الحليم، --- ابن تيميه، --- Ibn Taymīya, Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, --- Personality --- Philosophy --- Cheerfulness --- Ibn Taymīya, Taqī al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Ḥalīm, - 1263-1328 --- islam --- Avicenna --- God in Islam --- Ibn Taymiyyah --- Sheikh --- ‏ابن تيميه الحرانى، احمد بن عبد الحليم،‏ --- ‏ابن تيميه،‏