Sentence examples for definition of evil from inspiring English sources
Philosophers have spent the past 300 years trying to come up with a better definition of evil than the one religion seems to offer, or so one philosopher, Susan Neiman, says in a new book, "Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy" (Princeton University Press).
Even now, most people consider human will indispensable for any muscular definition of evil.
His definition of evil was "the corruption of people to behave in an inhuman way".
The Holocaust was, after all, a thing of terror and dread, a new definition of evil, a rupture in human experience.
According to this definition of evil, there is nothing real that stands in need of explanation – although Augustine does give an account of our deviation from the good by elucidating the concept of original sin.
The company still lives by its slogan of "Don't be evil", but larger numbers of people and more legal systems appear to be questioning whether Google has a broad enough definition of evil.
I can't live with a definition of ultimate evil that encompasses all of them.
When innocent children are murdered, whether by a Myra Hindley or a Fred West, it is sin in the purest form; the definition of unforgivable evil.
"Ted," she wrote, "was the very definition of heartless evil".
For instance, he cites the political philosopher Michael Walzer's definition of the "peculiar evil of terrorism," which, according to Walzer, is "not only the killing of innocent people but also the intrusion of fear into everyday life, the violation of private purposes, the insecurity of public spaces, the endless coerciveness of precaution".
