RLG303H1 Lecture Notes - Sodom And Gomorrah, Omnipotence, Marilyn Mccord Adams
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Popular images of evil are caricatures, monstrous (over the top), or demonic (otherworldly). Common image of devil is based on pan. 1) evil as a useless category relativism. 2) evil is easily identifiable sins and/or violations, or original sin . Not responsible for evil but tempting to do evil. Evil treated as a useful category help us understand and avoid doing evil or at least try to work against it. Katz"s definition of evil: behavior that deliberately deprives innocent people of their humanity, from small scale assaults on a person"s dignity to outright murder (5) Evil as potentially inherent in the human condition . Evil as a result of social structures, culture, bureaucracies, labor, everyday existence. Both private and social in the ways that we speak, work, etc . We have a duty to remember what happened when evil prevailed.
