The “Epicurean paradox” or “Riddle of Epicurus” is a version of the problem of evil. Lactantius attributes this trilemma to Epicurus in De Ira Dei: “God,” he says, “either wishes to take away evils, and is unable; or He is able, and is unwilling; or He is neither willing nor able, or He is both …
India is suffering from the worst water crisis in its history, with 600 million people (of a population of 1.3 billion) facing severe shortages, and 21 cities, including New Delhi, likely to run out of groundwater by 2020, according to a government think tank. The study found that about 200,000 people already die in India …
The FBI estimates that fraud, private and public, accounts for 10% of US healthcare expenditure. $350 billion out of the total of $3.54 trillion is pocketed by crooks. Why is this an Epicurean concern? Because that £350 million has to be made up for somehow, and is taken from honest citizens by insurance companies in …
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British Labour MP Jess Phillips says she has been bombarded with more than 600 rape threats in a single night. Facebook, Twitter and other social networks should be made to record people’s real identities, said Phillips. The security minister, Ben Wallace, has called for digital IDs to end online anonymity; while Theresa May has used …
…we are all born from the same celestial seed; all of us have the same father, from which the earth, the mother who feeds us, receives clear drops of rain, producing from them bright wheat and lush trees, and the human race, and the species of beasts, offering up the foods with which all bodies …
