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Age of Mythology
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Life and Death, good and
evil are united in one Ironic Truth.
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Homer: Achilles
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Evil derives from
insecurity about self which cannot bear humiliation.
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Homer: Odysseus
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Evil is the inevitable
‘trouble’ in life which provides the opportunity for heroism.
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Socrates/ Plato
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Evil is ignorance; the
Soul is innate and good.
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Aristotle
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Evil is immoderate
behavior; good is the mean between extremes.
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Sophocles
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Evil is innate and
ineradicable, but we can take responsibility for it.
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Ancient Hebrews
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Evil stems from human
disobedience (free will), but so does wisdom.
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Epicurus
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Evil is pain; good is
pleasure.
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Lucretius
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Evil stems from the fear
of death.
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Jesus
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Evil is unavoidable, but
grace is possible.
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St. Augustine
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Evil is the absence of God.
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Chaucer
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Evil is the perversion of
natural instinct.
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Machiavelli
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Evil
is human nature. Reason is good.
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Macbeth
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Evil is compassion
and 'feminine weakness'.
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Shakespeare
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Evil is the
perversion of natural instinct.
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Locke
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Evil is programmed by
experience which can be controlled by reason.
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Leibniz
(Pope)
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Evil is undiscovered
good which reason can apprehend.
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Rousseau
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Evil is the result of
human civilization..
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Voltaire
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Evil is the result of
human choice, but nature (instinct) is neither good nor bad.
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