Sentence examples for evil consideration from inspiring English sources
There is a massive classical and contemporary literature on the problem of evil; consideration of formulations of the argument from evil and of attempts to reconcile the existence of evil and the existence of an absolutely perfect being is beyond the scope of this article.
In Kantian categories, this second line of argument singles out not the evil of heteronomous considerations, but the goodness of considerations that autonomous and reasonable agents could accept as an appropriate basis for settling fundamental political questions.
As one would expect in a consideration of evil, Hannah Arendt is here, but so is Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the South African psychologist whose encounter with a torturer nicknamed "Prime Evil" is the perfect counterpoint to Arendt's encounter with Eichmann.
Out of such considerations of evil and thoughtlessness, along with close philosophical examinations of concepts like thinking, will and judgment, Arendt believed that a foundation for moral law could be found.
Terry Eagleton writes in "On Evil," his rather flippant 2010 consideration of the dark side, "If some people really are born evil … they are no more responsible for this condition than being born with cystic fibrosis".
What they don't understand is that once a company sells its soul to the stockholders — which it must at that point — good versus evil is no longer a practical consideration.
Trilling's work took readers outside the traditional insight of literary criticism into essentially philosophical considerations of good and evil, nature and civilization, commitment and evasion.
The idea that evolution contributes to immorality and social evils is not based on an objective consideration of the evidence (see for example, Isaak 2006).
Given these considerations regarding the causes of evil, and the limits of human understanding, what is the most reasonable hypothesis concerning the first cause of the universe?
For me, the book moves from a consideration of the social patterning about good and evil to an awareness of the individual's capacity for evil.
