Being Evil
Being Evil We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so…
Specifikacia Being Evil
Being Evil
We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback.
A serial killer who tortures their victims is not merely a bad person. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. They are evil.
And as the Holocaust showed us, we must remain vigilant against the threat of evil. But what exactly is it? If we use the word 'evil', are we buying into a naive Manichean worldview, in which two cosmic forces of good and evil are pitted against one another?
Are we guilty of demonizing our enemies? How does 'evil' go beyond what is merely bad or wrong?This book explores the answers that philosophers have offered to these questions.
Being Evil
Being Messy, Being Church
Being & Being Bought
Evil
Being Aware of Being Aware
Being White, Being Good
Evil Geniuses