Evil and human nature.

The Monist | April 1, 2002| | Copyright

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One familiar philosophical use of the term `evil' just contrasts it with `good', i.e., something is an evil if it is a bad thing, one of life's "minuses." This is the sense of `evil' that is used in posing the traditional theological problem of evil, though it is customary there to distinguish between moral evils and natural evils. Moral evils are those bad things (like war and crimes) that are caused by moral agents; natural evils are those bad things (like earthquakes and disease) that are not caused by moral agents. Since the existence of evils of both sorts is ...

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