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Two Contrasting Attitudes towards Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

Ruth Manning Gordon
Affiliation:
Boston

Extract

The problem of evil is nearly as old as philosophy itself. At present, however, it is occupying a very prominent place in philosophic thought, perhaps because the horrors of the great war and the unsettled social conditions have brought home to us with added emphasis the evil in the world, and have upset some of our theories of the even tenor and progress of mankind.

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Research Article
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Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1920

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