The question of evil.
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Sadomasochism and Christianity

This is a post on a website entitled "Bad News about Christianity". The name gives a fairly good indication of what it's all about, and there's certainly a lot of detailed information on the website, but unfortunately there is no indication of the identity of the author[s]. This seems to be intentional. Anyway, the post…

John Yamamoto-Wilson John Yamamoto-Wilson
Martyrdom. The question of evil. History of the emotions. The genealogy of masochism. Early modern suffering.

The Early Modern View of Evil

I’d like in this post to ruminate a bit on some points raised in a couple of papers on early modern thinking on the nature of evil by Samuel Newlands. The papers are: Leibniz on Privations, Limitations, and the Metaphysics of Evil (henceforth ‘Leibnitz’) Evils, Privations, and the Early Moderns (henceforth ‘Evils’) A full list…

John Yamamoto-Wilson John Yamamoto-Wilson
Pain, pleasure and perversity: Blogging on the book. The question of evil.