2006-12-13 10:08:26 · 20 answers · asked by Anna 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
man is the enemy and the root of all evil.
2006-12-13 10:10:35 · answer #1 · answered by love154100 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think the single most obvious nature of evil is elusiveness. Evil is a shadow-existence or a phantasm. It is something that promises but does not deliver. Broken promises are the best description of evil. Fakeness is also another depiction of the heart of evil. Satan tries to deceive people it is the Messiah. The Antichrist is the supreme evil and it is an imposter.
2006-12-14 01:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by psychologist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nature of good defines the nature of evil.
2006-12-13 10:48:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In religion and ethics, Evil refers to the "bad" aspects of the behaviour and reasoning of human beings —those which are deliberately void of conscience, and show a wanton penchant for destruction. Evil is sometimes defined as the absence of a good which could and should be present; the absence of which is a void in what should be. In most cultures, the word is used to describe acts, thoughts, and ideas which are thought to (either directly or causally) bring about affliction and death —the opposite of goodness, which itself refers to aspects which are life-affirming, peaceful, and constructive.
Perhaps evil is best represented in the human situation in the form of unprovoked hatred against and coupled with an aggressive impulse to cause harm to another person or group. Such hatred can be aroused from within the individual or group through jealousy, wrong teachings or due to unexplained extra-personal forces.
2006-12-13 10:17:52 · answer #4 · answered by Coop 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evil is a made up concept. It replaces words like "misguided", "misunderstood", "oppressed", "depressed" and so on.
(The religious are mistaken when they say that evil comes from satan. God made satan and god doesn't make mistakes, so evil would actually come from god.)
When you label something evil it releases you from any responsibility of trying to understand it. So I guess you could say that the nature of evil is ignorance.
2006-12-13 12:18:48 · answer #5 · answered by q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evil's nature is to hurt others.
2006-12-13 10:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The nature of evil is similar to the nature of Cold. Something that is cold is not objectively Cold, it is raher an absence of heat (according to physics).
Evil is not out there, it is the absence of good.
2006-12-13 12:37:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question pre-supposes that evil exists in an objective form in the first place. You would first have to establish the objective form, since there are many definitions of evil.
2006-12-13 10:12:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is the nature of evil to be bad.
As bad as bad can be.
Or you could say that evil is the total absence of goodness.
2006-12-13 10:12:00 · answer #9 · answered by Richard E 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the nature of evil is your mom
2006-12-13 10:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by Gir Pwns!! 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Human nature is the nature of evil, as only humans are capable of it and only humans will classify it, whether they're capable of defining it or not.
2006-12-13 10:25:43 · answer #11 · answered by Deus Maxwell 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋