Essays on Evil

Stealing. Rape. Murder. All of these are acts of evil that can be executed at any given point all over the world. However, none of these examples really help with understanding what evil actually is, which is why evil is perceived and defined differently by…

Let’s play a simple game to begin this. Which of the following is considered more evil: Letting someone die or killing someone? It’s significantly difficult with just these two simple phrases but perhaps some context for these situations would help in that decision: Letting someone…

The teaching of the Catholic church says that all things were created by God. However, if God created everything and God is all good, then how did evil come to be? It would seem that God must have an aspect of evil to himself if…

The Evil Within Man Children, the most uncorrupt of human-kind, when children know right from wrong, yet they still choose to do wrong, what does that say about man’s morality? In the allegorical novel, Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a “pack of…

From Hume’s point of view, he questions whether the architect (God) is actually real, and if this “architect” was real; why would he create something imperfect – isn’t he all-powerful? Hume is viewing God from a human’s point of view. Humans are obsessed with the…