Values ​​and History of Evil

The world is as it should be.

A reason for being in humanity

Le mal n'est pas autre chose que l'inadéquation de l'être au devoir être. Hegel encyclopédie § 472

The evil of which we are going to speak on this site could correspond to the evils of 2nd generation of which Maimonides speaks. Those that men inflict on each other, like the tyranny that they exercise against each other. If we have chosen to use the concepts of "evil" and "good" despite their ambiguous nature, it is for their wide scope.

More secular terms such as delinquency or transgression, are limited to the legal (in other words, "outlaws") without encompassing morale, in other words, without encompassing all "malevolence" done to others while remaining within the limits of the law.

Evil according to the universal mechanism

The idea of ​​"evil" as we mean it here, could be defined as this: "willful mistreatment of an innocent person or persons" and: "willful and disproportionate mistreatment of a person or persons guilty".

Evil poses several questions:

• Can evil coexist with God?
• Is evil a necessity or an aberration?
• How can we judge what is good or bad?
• What definition can we give of it?
• Why does it exist?
• Is it possible to prefer to do evil than good?

What is evil? How to give a precise definition of an act which includes the judgment?

2002

introduction

Pour moi, je suis à peu près persuadé que, parmi les philosophes, il n'y en a pas un qui pense qu'un homme pèche volontairement et fasse volontairement des actions honteuses et mauvaises ; ils savent tous au contraire que tous ceux qui font des actions honteuses et mauvaises les font involontairement, PLATON Les sophistes.