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1. • • Wanting to wrap your mind around evil and chaos doesn’t make you evil, unless you’re driven to commit real-life hateful or destructive acts. According to Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo, an in-depth, nuanced knowledge of evil can actually be a virtue—such knowledge helps us identify evil more readily and resist it when necessary.
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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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   Can people still be evil?

   • People could still, for example, be thoroughly evil, for they could still very much wish that they had the power to perform such terrible actions, and be disposed to perform such actions if they ever came to have the power. In the second place, prevention of deeply evil actions could take quite different forms.

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   Should we abandon the concept of evil?

   • Evil-skeptics believe we should abandon the concept of evil. On this view we can more accurately, and less perniciously, understand and describe morally despicable actions, characters, and events using more pedestrian moral concepts such as badness and wrongdoing.

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   Are evil people unaligned with the good?

   • For instance, Daniel Haybron argues that one reason to accept his contention that evil persons are wholly (or almost wholly) unaligned with the good is that it fits well with the intuition that moral saints are “perfectly, or near-perfectly, aligned with the good” (Haybron 2002b, 274. This argument makes an implicit appeal to the mirror thesis.

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   Is evil a problem?

   • If so, evil is once again a problem. By contrast, if God is conceived of in a purely metaphysical way, and if no connection can be forged between the relevant metaphysical properties and the possession of significant power, knowledge, and goodness, then the problem of evil is irrelevant.

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   Are evil people real?

   • If everyone can be redeemed and made good, then no-one is evil. I think it’s overly optimistic to think that we could have fixed Hitler, or Ted Bundy, or Dennis Rader, so I conclude that evil persons, as well as evil actions, are real.

   Does evil exist and, if so, are some people just plain evil?

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   Feb 3, 2019 · Perhaps one of the most important points the book makes is that we should reconsider our use of the word "evil," and start opening up conversations about the possible reasons people...

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

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   Nov 26, 2013 · Evil-skeptics believe we should abandon the concept of evil. On this view we can more accurately, and less perniciously, understand and describe morally despicable actions, characters, and events using more pedestrian moral concepts such as badness and wrongdoing.

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   May 22, 2014 · But what exactly do we assume when we judge that sadistic torture is evil, or that Ted Bundy is evil? Many contemporary philosophers agree that if an action is evil it must be morally...

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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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    Feb 21, 2017 · Wanting to wrap your mind around evil and chaos doesn’t make you evil, unless you’re driven to commit real-life hateful or destructive acts. According to Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo, an in-depth, nuanced knowledge of evil can actually be a virtue—such knowledge helps us identify evil more readily and resist it when necessary.