Questions tagged [evil]

At one point in Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone, Kant says: So it is not surprising that an Apostle represents this invisible enemy, who is known only through his operations upon us and who destroys basic principles, as being outside us…

This chapter asks whether the concept of evil is exclusively religious or supernaturally loaded, and what it means to say that evil exists. Some atheists refuse to use the word “evil” because of what they see as its religious connotations. Yet many…

Am I to blame when my petty acts of selfishness have evil unforeseen consequences, if some further bad consequences or other were foreseeable? Suppose I am stalking a friend in the hope they will give me some money. Fortunately, they do not kill…

It is absolutely bewildering that this argument even exists when it only argues against the Christian conception of god. In Islam, which is the fastest growing religion and has the second most adherents, there is no literal conception of perfect…