Perspectives
Religous Figures/ PhilosophersIn religion evil is ussually seen as the opposite of good.
St. Augustine (both a philosopher and religious figure) said: “Nothing evil exists in itself, but only as an evil aspect of some evil entity” Augustine’s reasoning says: “There can be no evil without good” NOT “there can be no good without evil” So therefore “Evil (nothingness) is dependent upon good existence, but good does not depend upon evil.” In short he sees evil as nothingness and good as existence and nothingness cannot exist without Existence, but existence CAN exist without nothingness. |
ScientistsScientists have been
studying the evolution of morality, however, “scientists generally believe that answers to questions of human value will fall perpetually beyond our reach because there is no intellectual justification for speaking about right and wrong, or good and evil, in universal terms.” Sam Harris, author of “The Science of Good and Evil”, makes reference to a hypothetical space that he calls “the moral landscape”—“a space of real and potential outcomes whose peaks correspond to the heights of potential well-being and whose valleys represent the deepest possible suffering.Different ways of thinking and behaving—different cultural practices, ethicalcodes, modes of government, etc.—will translate into movements across this landscape and, therefore, into different degrees of human flourishing.” Scientists are not able to scientifically state their definition of good and evil, because they can’t experimentally prove something that varies so much across the world. It is, however, understood that good is related to well-being, and bad is perhaps related to suffering, or the opposite of well being. |
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