Philosophy 1305F/G Lecture 9: Philosophy 1305F/G - Lecture 9.docx
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Defined: evil is the privation of the good. Evil is the absence of the good one cannot know evil without knowing good. Evil is an accident of good not as in mistake though. It exists in a subject of something else. It needs something to exist in in order for it to exist. Evil can"t exist in the absence of the subject in question. Murder: depriving the innocent victim"s family of the killed"s life. Moral evil vs. natural evil [not on exam] An example of natural evil is cancer. Cancer has to be seen as evil as the thing that erodes the human body, where consumption would be depriving someone of something. Moral evils are functions of the human will (e. g. rape, murder, etc. ). If any component of the human act is lacking or contains a privation, that act will be said not to be good.