Forget about "good as gold". Today it's going to get evil.
But who or what is evil at all?
The devil?
The Illuminati?
The mother in law?
Usually evil stands for morally wrong decisions,
an basic power which influences the history of the world
and which is the opponent of good.
That means, where light is, is also a shadow.
Obviously! God against the devil, the West against the terrorists,
Aspirin against headache ...
however back to the individual human being.
But who defines “morally wrong”?
Depending on the ethic position there are significant differences within the definition.
According to the critic of the Bible Benedict de Spinoza, evil is all
That blocks the self-assertion of every individual.
So, it´s a force from outside,
that prevents us humans from developing freely.
For Kant, evil is an essential part of human nature,
since humans are not only equipped with reason,
but also with "empirical", entirely worldly needs.
The inclination to the "dark side"-
so it has always been in us?
His fellow Enlightenment thinker Rousseau sees things differently.
For him, humans are born good.
Only living in the community (is what) poisons us, makes us evil.
Are we born evil, or does society make us evil?
Nietzsche threw all of this overboard,
declared "good" to be "bad"
and "evil" simply to be a construct of Christian "slave morality.”
Leibniz thoroughly examined the evil
He separated it into three categories
That’s the malem physicum:
Pain, loss, loneliness, poverty
everything that you wouldn’t even wish your worst enemy
Then Leibniz described the malum metaphysicum:
Small imperfections, predetermined breaking points built in by divine hand
According to Leibniz, man himself can be evil in only one way -
through the malum morale, the moral evil.
The sin which you commit when you turn from God.
In the 20th century, the existential philosopher Karl Jaspers also separated
evil within man into three categories
Firstly: Urges of any kind
Secondly: The lack of will to do good
And thirdly: The will to do evil
That is indeed interesting!
Haven’t we always been more fascinated by Darth Vader
than by Luke Skywalker wrapped in boring Eco-linen
It doesn’t matter which point of view you have; be it religious or ideological -
- "pure" evil; killing, stealing, lying
Is what is bad for The individual and society
Yet it seems that we need evil.
Good and evil are in a dualistic relationship
One cannot exist without the other
Otherwise, Ozzy Osborne would just be a doddering father
and every Hollywood film would begin with the happy ending
And plod along without antagonists
We need evil as an antithesis.
To find our way in the ethnical world