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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.
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16 wrz 2002 · The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world contains undesirable states of affairs that provide the basis for an argument that makes it unreasonable to believe in the existence of God. This discussion is divided into eight sections.
22 maj 2014 · Evil exists in the way that courage, malice, or honesty exist; not as a mysterious supernatural force that is capable of taking over a person, but as a character trait and as a moral property of actions. The chapter concludes with an explication of the philosophical method of conceptual analysis, which will be applied to the concept of evil.
30 sie 2016 · When we talk about evil, we may mean one of at least three things. First, we may be referring to anything that produces bad outcomes. In this very broad sense of the word, evil can be moral—wrongful human actions—or it can be natural, as when we talk of natural evils such as earthquakes, floods, and disease.
A philosophical analysis of the concept of evil must be able to make sense of the fact that some intelligent and well-informed people believe that evil is real, while others believe that evil is a myth or a dangerous fantasy.
18 wrz 2023 · Evil is divided into six short but richly thought-provoking chapters. The first, “The philosophical puzzle of evil,” opens by asking the defining question of the book: does evil exist? The case for the existence of evil seems clear on the face of it.
This chapter examines two key philosophical positions on evil, those of Kant and Nietzsche. Kant represents the classic philosophical conception of evil, which is ‘impure’ – that humans are capable of willing evil acts but not for their own sake, but for the sake of some other goal.
