Natural evil

a person may live a better life than another. How living a good life should be understood in both the material and the non-material reality. I will also explain what it means to live a good life. Finally, I will touch on the subject of the good and evil of technology. It is easy to see that there are many life styles in today’s society. This in its self is not a bad thing,…

Beowulf comes to play permanently removing Grendel’s existence by fighting for the good of fulfilment and promised goods. This encourage to fight on being something that powers Beowulf, being a much different case for Grendel who shows his limits through evil. Beowulf wins the battle against Grendel in a fair match, where he “...the Geat placed complete trust / in his strength of limb and the Lord’s favor.” (669-670) Presenting the acceptance of Beowulf’s future against someone with a darker…

The word evil can have many different meanings, such as morally bad, causing ruin, pain, or an evil force, power or personification. Both novels “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and “Lord of the Flies” deal with the struggle of man to control his inner evil. In J&H, Stevenson presents a man controlling his inner evilness as the character of Dr. Jekyll by creating a new identity for his evil attributed. Simultaneously, in LOTF William Golding explores the corruption of English children in the isolated…

Lowest Animal”, Twain argues that mankind is evil and cruel. He then goes on to say how he believes mankind was born with a “defect”. Twain believed that humanity will have the quality to know right from wrong, the do’s and the don'ts. He says how mankind will still go and choose to be selfish. Mankind will inflict with strong agony on others, it is for the pleasure of doing it he says. Layers, robbers, murderers and thieves are proven that mankind is evil in many ways. Mark Twain believed that…

The issue of evil and suffering in our world poses a serious challenge to the belief in a God, both from western and non-western perspectives. The problem of evil also called the problem of suffering, is an argument against the existence of God and is fundamentally the main argument for God’s non-existence by an atheist. In the western world, it is unmistakable that many theists believe in an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. However, these set of beliefs cannot all be true at the…

Philosophy take-home quiz The problem of evil is a very difficult topic to break down and take an absolute side on. Since a supposed deity is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, then how can evil exist naturally in our world? My views of this question are fairly mixed. In comparison to Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes, I could more or less agree with Demea and Philo. The reason that I say this is because my views are more faith predominant, I see evil as a coexisting presence with good.…

which can be remembered by self-cultivating behaviors. In this manner, good men can always return to their innate state of goodness by cultivating good behaviors throughout their lifespan. In contrast to this view, Xunzi defines the “incorrigibly evil” type of man that is born that way, which provides self-cultivation as a way to remedy bad behaviors inherited at birth. However, Xunzi is actually defining the impossibility of “good men”, since they…

As a believer of the divine, one could make three statements about the world: 1, God is omnipotent 2, God is wholly good and 3, evil exists. J.L. Mackie takes a logical approach to why there is evil in this world and concludes that if God is what He is defined as – omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good – evil should not exist for either God is not omnipotent, meaning all powerful, or He is not wholly good. Mackie claims that at least one characteristic of the divine must be untrue because it…

problem of evil is single handedly one of the most discussed topics throughout history and is one of the main reasons many people turn atheist. The premise of this idea is that if God is all good and all powerful how can he allow evil to exist in our world? There are many theories and argument defending God and attacking Christianity. Arguments like the free will defense, evidential problem, and skeptical theism are some of the most convincing and debatable responses to the problem of evil.…

Questions of Suffering Individuals often ask, “Why do people suffer?” or “What causes suffering?” One possible answer individuals have is blaming Satan, which makes sense considering he is associated with everything evil, which is true to a certain extent. Another answer people give is God is the cause of suffering, that also is a reasonable answer because he is never around to help individuals with suffering. However, the best answer would be: holding humans responsible for suffering due to…