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What is evil?

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    Forget about "good as gold".
    Today it's going to get evil.
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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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Title:
What is evil?
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Video Language:
German
Team:
Film & TV
Duration:
03:08

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