Classical Philosophy

Many have wondered over time, over centuries, whether Milton’s representation of Satan is in some ways too powerful, too vivid, too seductive. […]

Satan’s paranoia turns out to be right; in fact, the tree, which Satan thought was his bait for Adam and Eve, turns out to be God’s bait for Satan. […]

Milton’s “Paradise Lost” captures the corruption as well as the residual nobility of Adam and Eve, he ends it finally proclaiming God as the provident orderer of this poem and of the cosmos. […]

Many ideas similar to those of Thomas Hobbes about human nature were expressed in the past. But Hobbes was the only one who stood by his views and their consequences to the end. […]

Both natural evil and moral evil affect human lives in a significant manner. Moral evil hurts both the perpetrator and the victim. Natural evil, on the other hand, can enable people to feel compassion and help each other. […]

Traditional Christian views have always received their share of threats since ancient times. One of such challenges is Gnosticism, which challenges the traditional teachings of Christianity, thereby giving rise to many conspiracies. […]

There had been several approaches by various thinkers toward having a better understanding of what evil actually means. Over the years, Christian theology offered several theories of evil and how one can affirm the existence of God in the face of evil. […]

In his early writings, Plato depicted evil as an outcome of ignorance. With time, Plato’s views on evil became more complicated and his depiction of good and bad people became more radical. […]

In his dialogues on what he perceived to be evil, Plato has shared that that evil is a consequence of ignorance; that no one goes against their well-formed judgment, and that a well-formed judgment can never be truly evil. […]