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The problem of evil

Scott Woodcock (Victoria): When Will Your Consequentialist Friend Abandon You for the Greater Good? Emrys Westacott asks a probing question. David S. Oderberg (Reading): Why I am not a Consequentialist. Rouven J. Steeves (USAFA): Deadly Nothingness: A Meditation on Evil. Alan Wolfe reviews On Evil by Terry Eagleton. A review of Dick Bernstein's Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation. A review of The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion since 9/11 by Richard J. Bernstein. Enigma of the Will: G.T. Roche on Sade’s psychology of evil. A review of The Apologetics of Evil: The Case of Iago by Richard Raatzsch. A review of Law and Evil: Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis. James Schall on how philosophical reasoning must deal with those "who become extremely wicked". Is the pope a philosopher? For Benedict, relativism is the root of all evil, a force tending towards chaos and destruction. A new solution to the problem of evil: A psychological paper which claims to explain the religious account of evil is troublingly simplistic. Edward Feser on why Judeo-Christianity is necessary for human rights. Reading Philosophy in Tehran: Ramin Jahanbegloo on how tyranny makes philosophy more necessary. Does surveillance make us morally better? The roots of moral courage: Why do some people risk their lives to help others? Simon Blackburn reviews of Would You Eat your Cat? Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom. Philosophers are helping doctors with dilemmas over life-and-death decisions. Counsel of despair: Julian Baggini assesses the mental health of philosophical counselling. Perennial philosophy: Is there an eternal truth that we keep on discovering — whether it's a "divine reality" or something better formulated in another way?