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evant. In Western philosophical discussions, one often encounters an (implicit or explicit) dis-tinction between evil in a broad and generic sense of innocent suffering, that is, of bad things happening to good people, which raises questions about whether the natural or cosmic order is
26 lis 2013 · To avoid confusion, it is important to note that there are at least two concepts of evil: a broad concept and a narrow concept. The broad concept picks out any bad state of affairs, wrongful action, or character flaw. The suffering of a toothache is evil in the broad sense as is a harmless lie.
9 lut 2021 · The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction shows how centuries of thinkers — from Shakespeare and Schopenhauer to Marx, Sartre, and Beckett — have tackled the conundrum of the meaning of...
The upshot of all this is that on the theistic view it is the moral quality of a lived human life that is vital to its value and meaning; and the question about evil then becomes whether evil has the power to erode that quality.
This paper reveals an antinomy in existentialist Gabriel Marcel’s conception of evil, and argues that Marcel’s view of a feeling of hopeful existence is better understood by working through the antinomy.
In this chapter, I will try to provide an overview or map of theodicy as a way of thinking about and trying to make sense of and in many ways ‘discipline’ evil from the perspec-tive of human cognition.
What is it that makes a person or action morally evil? Taking a cue from Hannah Arendt, Sias argues that this sort of evil is essentially a matter of regarding others as “morally superfluous.” In other words, evil is a matter of utter moral disregard.
