He claimed that evil derives from the portion of inertia or nullity present in all non-divine creation; that it is a necessary accompaniment of good, or a stimulus to action, that it is an illusion based on narrow or temporally limited experience (G 4: 196f, 196, 231).
And a prominent personality expert at Columbia University has published a 22-level hierarchy of evil behavior, derived from detailed biographies of more than 500 violent criminals.
PAGE B4 Obituaries BERND EICHINGER, 61 A German screenwriter and producer, he made films in Germany and Hollywood, including the children's fairy tale "The NeverEnding Story," the "Resident Evil" series derived from video games, and "Downfall," a movie about the last days of the Third Reich that raised hackles for humanizing Adolf Hitler.
Bernd Eichinger, a German screenwriter and producer who made films in Germany and Hollywood, including the children's fairy tale "The NeverEnding Story," the "Resident Evil" series derived from video games, and "Downfall," a movie about the last days of the Third Reich that raised hackles for humanizing Adolf Hitler, died in Los Angeles on Monday.
All evils, nihilists believed, derived from a single source ignorance which science alone would overcome.
Evil cannot, in the Christian view, be derived from the dualistic assumption of the contrasts of spirit and body, reason and matter.
His intense belief in strict monotheism and in the evils of image worship began early and probably was derived from Islam, because at first he had no knowledge of Christianity.
In the West, absolute pacifism is often derived from the Christian ideal of nonresistance to evil as required by Jesus' pronouncements about nonresistance in the Sermon on the Mount (in Matthew) or the Sermon on the Plain (in Luke).
According to beliefs derived from fusui (feng shui), the fox's power over evil is such that a mere statue of a fox can dispel the evil kimon, or energy, that flows from the northeast.
