Though this sounds like
an ancient problem, I've seen a similar sight in southern California.
In recent years numerous attempts have been made to solve
the ancient problem of evil by way of a Given within the nature of God, the assertion of «the demonic» in the world (its metaphysical status being somewhat cloudy), or a forthright reinstatement of the existence of a personal devil.
He shows how the metaphysics of process can resolve some of
the ancient problems.
The ancient problem of evil, given the ecological character of history, is acutely a Christian problem.
When we really examine
this ancient problem, and we examine the life of the church today, it is like looking in a mirror.
Instead of being confronted with
the ancient problem of how to explain death if everything around us exudes life, we now have to apologize for the precarious fact of life (and consciousness) if everything around us in our universe is intrinsically dead and mindless.
DB: One approach is to work from the past forward, which is the approach taken by the Evolutionary Psychology paradigm; to try to think about the adaptive problems that drove human psychological evolution, and how
ancient problems are reflected in the current design of the mind.
Mooching roommates are
an ancient problem.
Michael Haar, professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Paris, struggles in The Song of the Earth with
the ancient problem of being.
The author holds your interest through believable modern and
ancient problems and situations that the main characters face.
At the same time, curator Jane Livingstone notes «His searching, inventive attacks on
the ancient problem of capturing (or posing) the figure, and the figure's relationship to architecture and furniture and draperies, suggest a discipline worthy of Ingres or Degas» (J. Livingstone, «Richard Diebenkorn: Modernist Humanist,» in Richard Diebenkorn: Figurative Works on Paper, exh.