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And as Cicero looks at the body, his slave Tiro feels himself "to be in the presence of Evil – Evil as a palpable force, as potent as lightning".
You describe the concept of pure evil as a myth in the book.
It made me think of mercury as evil, as a destroyer of metals.
"It is as near to expressing evil as a design can be".
Immanuel Kant defined radical evil as a "depravity," a "perversity of heart," or just a bad heart.
Drumont's hatred was of a somewhat new kind: where for Voltaire the Jews had been evil as a relic of antiquity, for Drumont they were evil as a herald of modernity.
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They have been thought of as harbingers of evil as well as a sign of the divine.
So you don't believe in evil, as an actual malevolent force?
Rather, they don't really believe in evil as an enduring reality in human life.
Narratives such as Snyder's, which treat evil as an explicable series of events, with ascertainable origins, can act as an early warning system.
The chagrin in his eyes suggests that he understands the concept of evil as an action -- and an active choice -- all too well.
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