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1." He tries to understand this in his usual way, by converting the experience into a general theory: "Corde believed that it was the evil that had overtaken the boy that did it" (33), an evil which characterizes contemporary reality as a whole."

Source:  Corner, Martin. "THE NOVEL AND PUBLIC TRUTH: SAUL BELLOW'S THE DEAN'S DECEMBER" Studies in American Fiction 28.1 Mar. 22 2000: 113

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2." The pleasure-and-pain theory is the only correct theory of morality, and the only way of judging life.(11) It is perhaps that same quintessentially "therapeutic" substitution of "pleasure-and-pain theory" for traditional conceptions of "good" and "evil" that leads Fass, over 70..."

Source:  Cohen, Daniel A. "Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America" Journal of Social History 32.3 Mar. 22 1999: 677-678

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3." In my opinion, this ability to decipher good from evil must lie at the heart of any authentic attempt to develop a theory of justice."

Source:  Scaperlanda, Michael A. "Immigration Justice: Beyond Liberal Egalitarian and Communitarian Perspectives" Review of Social Economy 57.4 Dec. 1 1999: 523

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4."... psychoanalytical theory of the good and bad breast, interprets a dichotomy of the good and evil woman in these works that anticipates symbolism."

Source:  Lambertson, John P. "Painting and History During the French Restoration: Abandoned by the Past" Art Bulletin 80.4 Dec. 1 1998: 747-751

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5." The larger frame of the book, to which the subtitle's reference to political theory points, is the rebirth of efforts to understand the whole of human life, its moral and political dimensions, longings and hopes, evils and goods."

Source:  Collins, Susan D. "Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, andPolitical Theory" American Political Science Review v92.n3 Sept. 1 1998: 681-683

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6." Bawer plows along chronicling the dim theories of Charles Dobson, Frank Peretti, Pat Robertson, et al. Such a picture of a good-and-evil religious universe allows Bawer to sympathize with..."

Source:  Cunningham, Lawrence S. "Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity" Commonweal 125.19 Nov. 1 1998: 34-36

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7." Bawer plows along chronicling the dim theories of Charles Dobson, Frank Peretti, Pat Robertson, et al. Such a picture of a good-and-evil religious universe allows Bawer to sympathize with..."

Source:  Cunningham, Lawrence S. "Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity" Commonweal 125.19 Nov. 6 1998: 34-35

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8." Hence, the theory of goods and evils that underlies the authors' root account is here at work, too, leafing out their analysis."

Source:  Richardson, Henry S. "Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals" Hastings Center Report 29.5 Sept. 1 1999: 36

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9."... and anachronisms, frequently approached in terms of such uni-dimensional dichotomies as good and evil, weak and strong, inferior and superior." After a sentence like this, so confidently and economically unfolding an entire tragic theory of global modernization, why write another?"

Source:  Maxwell, William J. "Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left" African American Review 36.4 Dec. 22 2002: 687-690

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10." More importantly, the general tendency of entrepreneurship to produce good or evil depends on the overall institutional order."

Source:  Minniti, Maria,Bygrave, William. "The Microfoundations of Entrepreneurship" Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice 23.4 June 22 1999: 41

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11." Militarism countenances war as a good thing in itself, setting this view off from the norm that generally war is evil, and as an entirely suitable means to obtaining a new world order."

Source:  Popiden, John R. "The ethics of war" Theological Studies 60.2 June 1 1999: 381

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12." In the final chapter of his Principles, "Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisser-Faire or Non-Interference Principle," "after stating that "Laisser-faire, in short, should be the general practice: every departure from it, unless required by some great good, is a certain evil,"..."

Source:  Maneschi, Andrea. "Noneconomic objectives in the history of economic thought" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 63.4 Oct. 1 2004: 911-921

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13."... but could also be an effective discussion-starter with older students exploring issues of responsibility, good/evil, or stereotypical depictions of particular characters. (G) Good, even great at times, generally useful! "

Source:  . "Emma and the coyote" Resource Links 5.1 Oct. 1 1999: 8-9

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14." Its distinctive contribution, therefore, must be located in its contention that Dewey's political theory shows how we might begin to fashion a truly democratic socialism, one that will free liberalism from its capitalist fetters without falling prey to the evils of centralized planning."

Source:  Kaufman-Osborn, Timothy. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" American Political Science Review 94.1 Mar. 1 2000: 170

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15." And we should remember that the United States is a predominantly christian country, with places where Darwinian theory is considered false and evil.) We read science out of concern for our own health and environment."

Source:  Byatt, A.S. "Strange and charmed" New Statesman (1996) 129.4481 Apr. 10 2000: 44

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16." Determinism I take to be the theory that, possibly with the rare exception of miracles, every state of the universe is entirely causally necessitated by the preceding state of the universe.) Furthermore, the solution to the problem of evil..."

Source:  Mawson, Tim. "The problem of evil and moral indifference" Religious Studies 35.3 Sept. 1 1999: 323

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17." In vain did the doctor urge that the Malthusian theories were shattered, that the calculations had been based on a possible, not a real, increase of population; in vain too did he prove that the present-day economic crisis, the evil distribution of wealth..."

Source:  . "Emile Zola Against Malthusianism" Population and Development Review 26.1 Mar. 1 2000: 145

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18."... of the notion of the "force" of claims in the context of speech act theory, see Terrence W. Tilley, The Evils of Theodicy (Washington: Georgetown University, 1991) chaps."

Source:  TILLEY, TERRENCE W. ""CHRISTIANITY AND THE WORLD RELIGIONS," A RECENT VATICAN DOCUMENT" Theological Studies 60.2 June 1 1999: 318

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19." Have we lost a vocabulary adequate to the enormity of the evil and ended up with threadbare theories ranging from "society (or bad families or genes) made them do it" to "those kids are monsters"?"

Source:  Tolson, Jay. "The vocabulary of evil" U.S. News & World Report 126.18 May 10 1999: 22-23

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20."... in all of its various forms, posits a eugenic theory of evil, one heavily invested in blood, nature, and the readability of the body."

Source:  JACKSON, CHUCK. "Little, Violent, White: The Bad Seed and the Matter of Children" Journal of Popular Film and Television 28.2 June 22 2000: 64

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21." The "axis of evil" speech by President George W. Bush, the invasion of Iraq and the failure to find WMD there have led many Arabs--both officials and ordinary people--to create theories about the real U.S. intentions."

Source:  Kahwaji, Riad. "U.S.-Arab cooperation in the Gulf: are both sides working from the same script?" Middle East Policy 11.3 Sept. 22 2004: 52-63

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22."... theory can do. Critics, when trying to trace the cause of modern political evils, often say "It's Rousseau's fault." In a sense they are right, but it is more broadly correct to say that the..."

Source:  Gairdner, William. "Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Romantic Roots of Modern Democracy" Humanitas 12.1 Mar. 22 1999: 77

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23." The complexity of history and gratuitous evil Gratuitous evil is commonly understood as evil which God could have prevented without forfeiting some greater good or permitting some evil as bad or worse than the instance of evil being examined."

Source:  DURSTON, KIRK. "The consequential complexity of history and gratuitous evil" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 65

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24."... to unleash the violence that, according to my religious beliefs, has its real origins elsewhere, in the evil that lies [in] the human soul, the evil that we have the capacity to overcome with good but to which we are vulnerable unless we are careful..."

Source:  Rankin, Margaret. "Economics, politics served as main course at dinner" Washington Times Mar. 26 1999: 14

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25." The same could be said of the name of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." Deposited in the name is a distinction between good and evil whose full significance awaits the transgression."

Source:  Tanner, John S. "THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TEMPTATION IN PERELANDRA AND PARADISE LOST: WHAT LEWIS LEARNED FROM MILTON" Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 52.2 Jan. 1 2000: 131

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