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Forget about "good as gold".
Today it's going to get evil.

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But who or what is evil at all?

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The devil?

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The Illuminati?

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The mother in law?

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Usually evil stands for morally wrong decisions,

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an basic power which influences 
the history of the world

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and which is the opponent of good.

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That means, where light is, is also a shadow.

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Obviously! God against the devil,
the West against the terrorists,

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Aspirin against headache ...

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however back to the individual human being.

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But who defines “morally wrong”?

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Depending on the ethic position there are 
significant differences within the definition.

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According to the critic of the Bible 
Benedict de Spinoza, evil is all

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That blocks the self-assertion 
of every individual.

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So, it´s a force from outside,

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that prevents us humans
from developing freely.

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For Kant, evil is an essential
part of human nature,

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since humans are not only
equipped with reason,

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but also with "empirical",
entirely worldly needs.

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The inclination to the "dark side"-

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so it has always been in us?

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His fellow Enlightenment thinker
Rousseau sees things differently.

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For him, humans are born good.

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Only living in the community (is what)
poisons us, makes us evil.

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Are we born evil,
or does society make us evil?

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Nietzsche threw all of this overboard,

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declared "good" to be "bad"

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and "evil" simply to be
a construct of Christian "slave morality.”

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Leibniz thoroughly examined the evil

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He separated it into three categories

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That’s the malem physicum:

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Pain, loss, loneliness, poverty

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everything that you wouldn’t even wish your worst enemy

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Then Leibniz described the malum metaphysicum:

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Small imperfections, predetermined breaking points built in by divine hand

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According to Leibniz, man himself can be evil in only one way -

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through the malum morale, the moral evil.

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The sin which you commit when you turn from God.

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In the 20th century, the existential philosopher Karl Jaspers also separated

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evil within man into three categories

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Firstly: Urges of any kind

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Secondly: The lack of will to do good

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And thirdly: The will to do evil

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That is indeed interesting!

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Haven’t we always been more fascinated 
by Darth Vader

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than by Luke Skywalker
wrapped in boring Eco-linen

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It doesn’t matter which point of view you have; 
be it religious or ideological -

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- "pure" evil; killing, stealing, lying

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Is what is bad for
The individual and society

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Yet it seems
that we need evil.

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Good and evil are
in a dualistic relationship

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One cannot exist without the other

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Otherwise, Ozzy Osborne
would just be a doddering father

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and every Hollywood film would begin
with the happy ending

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And plod along without antagonists

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We need evil as an antithesis.

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To find our way in the 
ethnical world

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