Arquivo para setembro 20th, 2023
What is evil?
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Evil is the removal of love, solidarity, compassion
and those who believe in God.
Any other view of God that justifies some type of evil is an apostasy (renounces a true belief), Augustine of Hippona, great sage and Christian theologian, classifies it as having three forms: physical, moral and ontological, all they must see being as being, to understand what morality and suffering in the world actually are.
Therefore, it is difficult to be fully focused on our being while we are dispersed across a set of daily tasks and chores if we do not understand them as part of a relationship of affection and empathy with the world and people.
Physical illness can be due to natural causes: illnesses and situations of some daily mishap, problems due to aging and even inheritance to which everyone is subject, there can be physical illness due to maladjustments and distances in our being, and even Even the evil effects that we discussed in previous posts, moral evil is a human option.
It is not about the legal, because this depends on human laws that are temporal and they change according to circumstances and contexts, but those that are principles of humanity and civility: not killing, not stealing, not discriminating, in short, those that are valid for all.
There is also a golden rule present in different cultures and religions: do not do to others what you would not like to be done to you, but this principle assumes people who are not closed (they judge others according to their values) and not unhealthy (who justify an evil ).
One thing is certain about evil, it is not only different from good, it is inferior because it does not dignify or magnify the being, but it is not true that it does not prosper, see the example of war, corruption and criminal groups that live for years and destroy lives.
So it is not one of the Manichaean poles, as a moral, social and ontological value, Love and everything that symbolizes what we generically call “good” is not an anti-evil, it is another greater thing that elevates us as a being, as a civilization and that applied to social eliminates injustices.
