I’ve been thinking & would like thoughts from the wide range of views here.
Aristotle said that there are 2 parts to every action, the intention & the deed. Evil seems on the surface to be the act, but can we ignore intention behind it – if I try to help you but accidentally harm you is it evil?
So is evil the intention of evil & the evil act itself? What if we add further problems- where people disagree an act is good/evil but all involved believe they are doing the right thing? Examples being the Nazis who’s acts I consider horrific, yet at the time they did not believe themselves evil. There are many examples of this. A more subtle example is Iraq, everyone believes they are doing the right thing but the war is right/wrong based on perspective.
The split divides people of the same faith (Bush, Blair &many opponents are Christian). Another example (Im not here to Christian bash) are Muslims & their approval/disgust at various things done in Allahs name.
So what is evil?
2006-08-07
01:16:12
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