Victor Nuovo
-
Victor Nuovo: The best of all possible worlds
The philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz believed that God was the ultimate cause of existence, that God created the world from nothing.
-
Victor Nuovo: How can God allow evil to exist?
What is the problem of evil? The fact that there is evil, that bad things happen, is undeniable. But this doesn’t constitute a single problem; rather it presents…
-
Victor Nuovo: The right and the good
When Adam and Eve disobeyed the divine prohibition and ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they couldn’t have known that they…
-
Victor Nuovo: Good and evil, gods and humans
It is impossible to reach an understanding of the meaning of life without a knowledge of good and evil, for lacking it we would not be able to…
-
Letter to the editor: We must engage Putin’s evil with political realism
There is no doubt that Vladimir Putin has succeeded in achieving one of his life purposes. He has become a world-historical figure.
-
Victor Nuovo: Plato considers time, being, creation
Plato was not only a profound philosopher, but also a consummate artist, and reading his works is not only interesting and intellectually challenging, but an aesthetic delight.
-
Victor Nuovo: Death and immortality
Socrates imagined that death is one of two things: Either it is extinction, or the release of the soul from the body and its migration to another place.
-
Victor Nuovo: Look to our great moral teachers
It is a curious fact that the two greatest moral teachers of the Western intellectual tradition — Socrates of Athens (470–399 BCE) and Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE–30…
-
Victor Nuovo: Does God exist?
In my last essay I wrote that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), who was surely a great philosopher, believed that God is the reason for everything, which leads to…
-
Victor Nuovo: The fundamental questions of the meaning of life
“Why is there anything at all? Why not Nothing?” The German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) took this to be the fundamental question of philosophy.