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   Why is the concept of evil important?

   • Formosa explores the different ways in which the concept of evil may be burdened with the kind of religious and historical baggage that makes contemporary philosophers reluctant to deploy it. He argues, contra this view, that the concept of evil has an important role to play in our understanding of the moral landscape.

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   Do we need the concept of evil?

   • We need the concept of evil. 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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   What is the argument from evil?

   • The argument from evil focuses upon the fact that the world appears to contain states of affairs that are bad, or undesirable, or that should have been prevented by any being that could have done so, and it asks how the existence of such states of affairs is to be squared with the existence of God.

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   Why do people say 'evil'?

   • When people use the word ‘evil’ in these contexts they seem to be indulging in playful hyperbole. Evil is scary and bad, but it is so exaggeratedly scary and bad that there is something unrealistic, even ridiculous, about it. Evil, in this sense, teeters on the edge of the comical.

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   What is a 'evil'?

   • In this narrower sense, evils can be great, such as murder, or small, such as malicious gossip. But there is also a third sense of the word “evil,” one that is narrower still, where we are referring to a special, and specially horrifying, subset of the range of human wrongdoing.

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   What is the problem of evil?

   • The problem of evil is the problem of accounting for evil in a world created by an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God. It seems that if the creator has these attributes, there would be no evil in the world. But there is evil in the world. Thus, there is reason to believe that an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good creator does not exist.

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2. plato.stanford.edu › entries › concept-evilThe Concept of Evil - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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   Nov 26, 2013 · Evil-skeptics give three main reasons to abandon the concept of evil: (1) the concept of evil involves unwarranted metaphysical commitments to dark spirits, the supernatural, or the devil; (2) the concept of evil is useless because it lacks explanatory power; and (3) the concept of evil can be harmful or dangerous when used in moral, political ...

   • The Problem of Evil

     The epistemic question posed by evil is whether the world...

   • Nietzsche, Friedrich

     1. The Critique of Morality 1.1 Scope of the Critique:...

   • Augustine, Saint

     A created being can be said to be evil if and only if it...

   • Kant's Philosophy of Religion

     But what nearly all of Kant’s pre-Critical writings have in...

   • Kant, Immanuel: Moral Philosophy

     1. Aims and Methods of Moral Philosophy. The most basic aim...

   • Moral Responsibility

     1. Freedom, Responsibility, and Determinism. What power do...

   • Moral Skepticism

     This neo-Pyrrhonian position can be explained in terms of...

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   Sep 16, 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.

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   Aug 30, 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.

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   An essay on Hannah Arendt and her concepts of the nature of evil by Arendt scholar and trustee Jerome Kohn.

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   Evil is important because it can be used as an argument for God’s existence as well as a clue to the nature of created reality. In C. S. Lewis’s life, the problem of evil was perhaps the greatest of all obstacles to his coming to faith.

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   Feb 13, 2018 · How do concepts change over time? What was the ancient concept of Evil, and what is its modern counterpart? Why does the existence of Evil deny the existence of God?

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   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.