-- Plato. Society may have a lot of affect on perfectly good people turning evil. At the end of the day if all of society turned evil, then the good people would turn too. People aren't just born evil they choose to be evil. "It's hard to accept that all the evil in the world comes down to something so simple.
Since our intelligence is inherently good it is not possible to take away from something that is good, something that is evil. The line that Aug says that really strikes me is, “Or, if indeed evil is learned, that can only be in the sense that we learn to avoid deeds which ought not to be done. Hence to do evil is nothing but to stray away from education.” (OFW, Book 1, I, section 2.) This applies to the argument very well because we don’t learn to do evil;
My view on why god allows evil is that he does allow evil simply because of free will. I believe this because god is all-knowing he knows our next move but he gives us free will to choose evil from good or vice versa, but natural evil people wonder why god would allow this and simply I will state why. There are two kinds of evil in the world: moral and natural; both appear to exist in abundance. Moral evils are those evils that are freely inflicted upon humankind by humankind: Larson, adultery, murder, theft, etc. ; they result from the choices of free will.
In the world we live in, it seems that every other person is out for self gain They will step on anyone and do whatever it takes to get what they want, but does that make them purely evil? What if in their final moments they go something good? Or if their evil ways are result’s of circumstances that they can no control over? It’s a hard line to draw and in King Lear Shakespeare explains why through the use of conclusions. The most important conclusion Shakespeare has drawn about the nature of humanity in King Lear is the fact that evil is not something the gods have cursed you with at birth but it is something that you choose for yourselfACt .
Semone McElroy Theo 202-003 Hamartiology Paper The Doctrine of Sin It would be amazing if we lived in a world where there was no sin. No temptation or the lust of the eyes or the flesh. But because of Adam and Eve, we as humans have a sinful nature. When one studies the nature of sin, one can come across Hamartiology, the Doctrine of sin. Sin can lead many people in dark places, it can affect the personality of the people, and we can allow sin not to control our lives.
“God must be Evil” The question “is God evil?” is asked very often with both sides of the question offering different answers to this question with no definitive answer coming about but in both cases people coming out with very convincing arguments for both sides of the story. Some people argue that God is indeed evil because he is omniscient and because of his omniscience he knows that from the moment he decided to create us maybe even before then he knew which of us would reject him thus securing a place in hell for them or would sin again securing them a place in hell and yet does nothing about this. This is a major contradiction to his supposedly being omnibenevolent and some people even go so far as to use examples of murder and rape which are horrific events which they then use to say “how can a loving God allow such a thing to happen?” They then go further into it saying how as God is omnipresent and can see everything that has happened, will happen and is happening he must take some sort of sick pleasure in watching these events occur and so is evil. Or at the very least by allowing such a horrific event to happen without some form of justice or stopping them then he has to be evil as only an evil person would let evil acts go unpunished. Sam Harris uses this idea in one of his quotes saying that “Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes or he doesn’t care to or he doesn’t exist.
Nowadays, our society raises us to believe that obedience is good and disobedience is bad. We are taught that we should do all what we’re told and that disobedient people are mostly accused of being bad people. Society tells us this, but it is not true. Disobedience is sometimes a necessary transitional phase and it’s not always harmful as people claim. Could disobedience be the step to a prosperous future or to the end of human civilization?
Human Nature: Good Versus Evil? Karen S. Becker St. Louis University Is Human Nature Good or Evil? Is human nature inherently good or evil? In my opinion, I want to believe we are all born with goodness to prevail, but would have to concede this is probably not the case. I think that most people want to be good, to do the right thing when choices are made.
The narrator describes Claggart by stating, “his complexion…though it was not exactly displeasing, nevertheless seemed to hint something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood” (qtd. in Smith). Smith helps explain that it’s not hard to tell that Claggart is evil because his appearance signals the other characters and reader about his evil nature. Typically, people relate outward appearance to inward characteristics, motives, and values, such as in Claggart’s case. Claggart’s evil-minded nature with “something defective or abnormal in the constitution and blood,” has always been present to destroy the plan of
Name: ___________________________________ Writing Style Used: MLA________________________________ (e.g., Turabian, APA, or MLA) Course and Section Number: THEO 202_____________________ Essay on Topic Hamartiology: The Problem of Evil (Theodicy) There is a consistent question that seems to repeat itself when witnessing to both nonbelievers and believer alike. The question often sparks a theological debate and sometimes heated arguments. The question roots its self in the problem of evil. “The phrase the problem of evil is actually a label for a series of such problems involving God and evil” (Elwell P.413). It typically fashions itself in a question such as this.