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2021 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 110768
Author(s):  
Russell J. Webster ◽  
Nicolette Morrone ◽  
Donald A. Saucier
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2021 ◽  
Vol 173 ◽  
pp. 110584
Author(s):  
Russell J. Webster ◽  
Nicolette Morrone ◽  
Matt Motyl ◽  
Ravi Iyer
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2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Sakti Sekhar Dash

Cormac McCarthy has often been hailed as a writer’s writer. His writings are difficult to classify as they evoke a complex perspective. A recurring problem in his novels is the ambiguous nature of virtue and violence. It is my aim to look into their dynamics in the context of radical humanism. It will shed light on human nature as presented by McCarthy, with its aspects of virtue and violence. In a world increasingly suffering from violence, where individuals strive for freedom it is important to address the question of radical humanism and its interaction with primal human nature, virtue and violence. A common thread is represented by various questions regarding human nature, free will, pure evil, nature of God, level of morality, language and meaning. The characters have little or no capacity of mind or consciousness and their encounter with the world is not mediated by laws of morality, politics or religion. In other words, the world we are facing “is void of moral meaning”, it is a world that gravitates around a nihilistic core, a “morally nihilistic world.”


Author(s):  
Robert G. Weiner

There are many types of villains in society and popular culture. There is the villain that is pure evil. There is the villain that is motivated by revenge. There is also at times the hero turned villain. However, one of the most interesting villains is the villain that is a catalyst for political or social change, a necessary evil. This type of villain has a certain brutal honesty of character. They recognize that through their actions, no matter the cost to morality or humanity, that society may become a better place. In many ways they could be a misguided hero. The best example of this is the Kingpin. He is the pinnacle of the villain who understands his role as an agent of change, a villain who believes the ends justify the means, which in a sense makes him good.


Evil ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 444-449
Author(s):  
Avishai Margalit
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This Reflection focuses on three of the great threats we confront in thinking about evil. First, we often forget to distinguish clearly between instigators of evil and compliers with evil. Second, we are too often tempted to think of the instigators as satanically great embodiments of pure evil—outside the moral domain. Second, we are also tempted to think that compliers are all banal and, in some sense, less guilty than the instigators.


Evil ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 414-422
Author(s):  
Christy Mag Uidhir

Prior to the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code in 1934, Hollywood films were infamous for featuring violence, sexuality, profanity, drug use, and all manner of moral turpitude. Despite this, it wasn’t until the middle of the century that what might be called “pure” or “intrinsic” evil became a prominent theme in American film. In this chapter, I investigate the varieties of evil on display in American cinema and conclude that perhaps the relatively late appearance of “pure” evil depicted cinematically may have had to do with the very sorts of very real evils occurring in the very actual world in the middle of the twentieth century.


Evil ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 82-88
Author(s):  
Esther J. Hamori

ha-satan (the adversary) is an ambiguous figure in the earliest Hebrew texts. Far from being the malevolent, majestic embodiment of pure evil imagined by Milton, the figure we confront in the Hebrew Bible can sometimes be a source of assistance around the heavenly court. Conversely, and even more surprisingly, Yahweh is depicted in some of these texts as having a moral character that is not wholly good. This Reflection assesses the way the depiction of ha-satan evolves across various parts of the Hebrew Bible, and relates it to the way the character of the devil is depicted in Christianity.


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