Sentence examples for conception of evil from inspiring English sources

Firstly, his conception of evil as privation and as associated with matter conflicts with his initial conception of matter as a substance.

There is a secular moral concept of evil which is distinct from fictional or religious conceptions, and it is this secular conception of evil that is meant most often when the term 'evil' is used in moral and political contexts (see Garrard 2002, 325; Card 2010, 10 17).

That's why I suggest people see Laurence Olivier's "Richard III," because Olivier's performance, it's so shocking, Olivier's spiderlike conception of evil is so deeply disturbing, that you understand why nothing like this really was seen on stage, and this was the play that made Shakespeare a star.

For instance, on some conceptions of evil, evildoers are possessed, inhuman, incorrigible, or have fixed character traits (See Cole 2006, 1 21; Russell 2006 and 2010; Haybron 2002a and 2002b).

Tells about Bullock's concept of evil.

Evil-skeptics believe we should abandon the concept of evil.

Some theorists focus on evil character, or evil personhood, as the root concept of evil.

For instance, someone who has a narrow conception of harm, might believe that evil actions need not be harmful.

"With dualistic conceptions of good and evil and hierarchical notions of values and worth," Mr. Sanders wrote in an essay for the Web site Religion Dispatches, "it becomes easy to know who it is O.K. to hate or bully, or, seemingly more benignly, to ignore.

All conceptions of good and evil become weightless, mere matters of individual preference.

Roosevelt's absolute self-assurance, his conception of government as a struggle against evil rather than as a clash of interests, his view that there was nothing wrong with very big businesses per se, and his enthusiasm for a national government operated by the élite class — this wasn't a politics devoted to the interests of the little people.