Document Type : Original Article
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Philosophy department, humanity faculty, Tehran north branch, Islamic Azad University
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There are numerous ideas regarding the nature of evils and the cause of its emergence and the division of evils as well as the dependence on natural evils on moral evils. Considering the idea of FazelQooshchi that there is no proof regarding the negativity of evil and only a number of inductive evidences have been provided instead, the author has sought to demonstrate the negative nature of evils via critically discussing the major ideas and analyses of evilnot as an existential negation versus the existential positivity a la MullaSadrarather as an example of philosophical secondary intelligbilia. This is to say that although evil does not have an objective extension it does certainly have a source of abstraction in the outside world.
Moreover, the current essay offers a multidimensional analysis of the problem of evil based on philosophy, theology and religion in order not to submerge in the methodological exclusivism. Thus the author attempts to depict a geometry of evils and offers an explication of the causes of their emergence as a non-existential and negative phenomenon and finally proves the divine stature of the Necessary Being based on the theory of punishment, atonement and the means of nearness.
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