In those confirmed in good, however, God has so made it that this capacity cannot be exercised, and so they are incapable of making an evil moral choice.
Locke designates no special faculty by which we acquire the basic moral concepts of good and evil, since these are merely a modification of our ideas of natural good and evil; moral good and evil gain their special significance from considering ideas of pleasure and pain in specific contexts.
I couldn't write this paragraph without using words (evil, moral, right and wrong) that are considered by many folks to be the exclusive property of religion.
Carlisle thinks Christian theology is amply supplied, and is one of our best resources, offering as it does a taxonomy of evils: moral evil (human wrongdoing), natural evil (calamitous earthly events, like earthquakes and tsunamis), and "metaphysical evil" (our predicament as human beings, to be mortal and to have limited powers of knowledge), among others.
Furthermore, it is possible that God, even being omnibenevolent, would desire to create a world which contains evil if moral goodness requires free moral creatures".
Since the narrow concept of evil involves moral condemnation, it is appropriately ascribed only to moral agents and their actions.
Erdrich juxtaposes a tradition like this against the Roman Catholic conviction that every evil, "whether moral or material," ultimately "results in good".
This summer another Saudi cleric denounced the Arab world's most popular television show ever — the dubbed Turkish series "Noor" — calling it "replete with evil, wickedness, moral collapse and a war on the virtues".
This saying, which equates capital with "bloody money" (Lagemann 1989, 23), is the extreme expression of "evil" in moral judgment.
There is a good deal of confidence expressed, particularly in the discussion of the argument from evil, that moral goodness is a pure perfection, but it is not clear whether that confidence is well-placed.
In faith-full politics, we are told that the world can be categorized in hermetically sealed categories of black and white, good and evil, and moral and immoral.
