If "Little Doc" is a fairly good example of contemporary urban melodrama, Lillian Hellman's 1946 play "Another Part of the Forest" (a Peccadillo Theatre Company production, at the Theatre at St. Clement's) is a more pastoral exemplar of the form, inspired by the good-versus-evil morality plays of such nineteenth-century authors as Dion Boucicault and Clyde Fitch.
Kant's thoughts on evil and morality have had an important influence on subsequent philosophers writing about the nature of evil such as Hanna Arendt, Claudia Card, and Richard Bernstein.
The Id knows "no good and evil, no morality", according to Freud; it is a chaotic mass of instincts seeking release.
I am trying to become more careful with the words I use because the meanings of words like justice, love, hate, grace, honesty, truth, good, evil and morality are critically important in our world of contemporary tolerance.
Above all, it is a sophisticated exploration of issues of morality, evil and luck.
Mosley has always, obviously, been finely attuned to matters of race; but he has also been interested in evil, or warped morality.
From Beowulf to Tolkien, to countless formulaic fantasy movies at a multiplex near you, the genre generates two-dimensional Manichaean struggles between Good and Evil, in which morality's shades of grey are reduced to one black and one white.
Noting that privacy is neither a presumptive moral evil nor an unquestionable moral good, Allen nevertheless defends more extensive privacy protection for women in morality and the law.
Torture is said to be acceptable as the lesser of two evils -- making morality a relative measure.
Django Unchained is a bloody, violent movie (although if you pay close attention there is a lot of violence in the Book of Exodus as well), but ultimately, like the story of Israelite slavery, it is a story of the triumph of morality over evil, and the goodness that can imbue and ultimately redeem the souls of those who are evil's victims.
They have promised to ensure that cartoons "promote good and lash out at evil" and "advocate social morality and family virtues".
