Their evil arose from their allure, charisma, and dazzling good looks.
In this way, for Locke, the ideas of good and evil arise from natural emotive responses to our various ideas.
In On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic, Nietzsche argues that the concept of evil arose from the negative emotions of envy, hatred, and resentment (he uses the French term ressentiment to capture an attitude that combines these elements).
In my model of morality, our dual dispositional nature of good and evil arose from our evolutionary history as a social primate species practicing within-group amity and between-group enmity.
His stories are as liable to depict the evil that arises from parental love or from good liberal thinking as they are to allow the good that can come of evil.
For example, the term salvation in the Christian context means deliverance from the powers of evil that arise from original sin and that beset a person's body, mind, and soul.
'Empty' (kenê) anger, Philodemus says, is an evil: it arises from a wholly bad disposition and it has bad consequences; on the other hand, 'natural' anger is not an evil: it may indeed 'bite', but its bite is very brief (37.46 38.11, ed. Indelli 1988).
It is clear to my mind that this evil wholly arises from the false position which woman occupies in civilized society.
But many thinkers at this time understood human nature as fundamentally disposed toward beneficence, so that evil was seen as arising from socialization and upbringing rather than from deep drives within the human being.
Like many Jews my age, I was raised with stories of gas chambers, gruesome medical experiments, and mass graves — an evil that was explained as arising from the Nazis' failure to see their victims as human.
March 15: "Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil".
