Sentence examples for account of evil from inspiring English sources

Any defence of Augustine's position has to begin by pointing out that his account of evil is metaphysical rather than empirical.

The first 200 pages of this book are thought-provoking; a fine account of evil beliefs and (at least on the part of the authorities) evil actions.

While Russell clearly favours a dispositional account of evil character, he does not say that his dispositional account identifies necessary and sufficient conditions for evil personhood.

While this account of evil allows for a wide range of motivations, it does specify that evildoers must foresee the harm they produce and lack a moral justification for producing the harm.

However, while Card's account of evil institutions correctly identifies genocide and other paradigmatically evil institutions as evil, her account also classifies as evil some institutions which are less obviously evil such as capital punishment, marriage, and motherhood (Card 2002, 2010).

In light of this and other problems for frequent evildoer accounts, Luke Russell (2010) has developed a dispositional account of evil character that is similar in many respects to frequent evildoer accounts, but which can make sense of the fact that some evil people do not do evil.

The Stoic character of this text is evident, as is Carmichael's injunction that we not be disturbed on account of evils which have befallen us, or which might befall us, due to no fault of ours.

A second possibility is that the principle is a good causal condition, but that the account of evils is too broad, and needs to be restricted to a more intuitively medical set of evils, rather than the broader class of impediments to well-being.

Contemporary science is proposing persuasive accounts of "evil" that suggest practical responses such as medical treatment or penal reform.

According to extremity accounts of evil character, evil characters have certain bad-making characteristics to an extreme degree.

On consistency accounts of evil character, Bob is not an evil person because he does not have evil-making characteristics consistently.