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Things change.
On the assumption that humans naturally seek happiness and goodness, ancient philosophies held that choosing misery and evil came from ignorance and folly. Either modern theories have disproved the assumption or the natu… -
Before good and evil.
The wilderness of the mind is where bestial thoughts roam. -
Rousseau, Nietzsche, etc.
To seek to go before or beyond good and evil is already to be caught in a trap. -
Hannah Arendt.
The counterintuitive claim of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” is that the banality of evil is opposed to the interest in thought. -
Scholasticism for the 21st century.
After his introductory lectures on symbolic logic, the philosophy professor exemplified the utility of truth tables with an argument about how God and Evil can co-exist. -
Motivations.
Has there ever been a moralist who has not believed themselves to be at bottom good? Then again, has there ever been who an amoralist that has not known themselves to be evil at heart? -
He who is too timid to do evil is merely well-behaved.
The good are necessarily courageous, although the courageous need not be good. -
Lesser evil, greater good.
The prominent choice of "lesser evil" justifications of the existing state of affairs is guided by a deep skepticism of claims about the "greater good." -
Evil is not the lack of good: good is the lack of evil.
A person who is good simply hasn't yet been given the right opportunity to do the wrong thing. -
The tendency of moralists is to describe everything as good or evil.
How weak their ethical convictions must be such that they must be exercised at every available opportunity.
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