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The question of theodicy is the question of how God's existence remains probable despite the problem of evil in the world. A certain theodicy is then an attempt to answer this question by giving a justificat...

The Catholic church is an institution that has absolute rules on moral issues. One of these is abortion. They use Biblical passages such as Jeremiah 1:5 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you' and Gene...

Kant's categorical imperative is a test he created to see if an act is morally wrong. It simply states that 'an act in a particular circumstance is right if and only if you would choose that everyone perform...

Utilitarianism is different from other moral theories because it sees happiness alone as the sole aim. Many other theories see duties as overriding happiness, and perhaps elevate virtue, honour or religious ...

The concept of the modern individual is dependent on the process that Weber (1948) calls 'disenchantment'. Disenchantment was the process whereby responsibility for the fate of the world is accepted as a hum...