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Evil and Collective Moral Failures
, 2018 Most debates about evil centre on the applicability of the term to individuals’ actions, their motives and effects. Might collective moral failures – where the malignant intentions of specific individuals cannot by themselves account for the scale of ...
Gideon Calder
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2003
AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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AbstractRousseau is often celebrated or cursed as an exemplar Enlightenment philosopher who declared that although humans are naturally good, society tampers with us and thereby corrupts us. Although Rousseau's complex and even contradictory writings engender disagreement among his interpreters, all seem to agree that Rousseau spurned any notion of ...
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1999
Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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Abstract David E. is 23. He is in police custody because he inflicted injuries leading to severe brain damage in a 29 year old woman. He met the woman at a dance where he had gone with some friends. He danced with her a few times, bought one or two drinks and agreed to take her somewhere quieter for coffee.
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1977
The attempt to solve the problem of evil in the way just expounded has been subjected to an ingenious attack by J. L. Mackie. In an article often referred to,1 he points out that if we are to assume that charity, compassion and so on are such desirable qualities, it is worthwhile having earthquakes, hurricanes and all sorts of dreadful diseases just ...
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The attempt to solve the problem of evil in the way just expounded has been subjected to an ingenious attack by J. L. Mackie. In an article often referred to,1 he points out that if we are to assume that charity, compassion and so on are such desirable qualities, it is worthwhile having earthquakes, hurricanes and all sorts of dreadful diseases just ...
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The Moral Significance of Evil
2009Evil is the strongest one-word condemnation our moral vocabulary affords. In its primary sense, evil is predicated of actions. An action is evil if the agent performing it has a malevolent motive, the action causes grievous, gratuitous harm to innocent victims, and lacks a morally acceptable excuse. Understood in this way, evil is prevalent.
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1991
5.1 I have said that God, a supremely perfect being, would have appropriate pro and con attitudes toward human beings and their actions. But here someone may ask, ‘Why would God have any con attitudes? No doubt he does, if he exists, have con attitudes toward wrongdoers, since they exist. But why does he permit them to exist?’ The reader will recognize
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5.1 I have said that God, a supremely perfect being, would have appropriate pro and con attitudes toward human beings and their actions. But here someone may ask, ‘Why would God have any con attitudes? No doubt he does, if he exists, have con attitudes toward wrongdoers, since they exist. But why does he permit them to exist?’ The reader will recognize
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Using trait and moral theories to understand belief in pure evil and belief in pure good
Personality and Individual Differences, 2021Russell J Webster +2 more
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