Evil Vs. Good And Evil

Good and evil have existed since the beginning of mankind. Good defends the righteous, as evil has been bent on destruction. In today’s society, many people believe that good will always triumph over evil. The murderer will eventually be caught by the police; the carjacker will one day meet his doom; the superhero will defeat the evil villain. Simply, in some circumstances, this is not entirely true. Good does not always prevail over evil. This is exceptionally true in the movie No Country for Old Men by the Coen brothers. The dominant theme in the Coen brother’s movie is evil.

It would appear that evil exists in our world. Millions of people are starving across the world, nations are constantly at war, natural disasters take countless innocent lives, and the hand of man has bestowed great injustice unto his brothers throughout history, from the Inquisition to the Holocaust. Evil seems rampant and senseless.

Inside each of us, there is a seed of good and evil since it is a constant struggle for us to

It is very difficult to discern between good and evil in a society where people can often trick others into thinking that they are actually good in spite of the fact that they have hidden interests. As a

How does one characterize good and evil? Throughout time, people have asked this question and only received opinions based on references from

There is a lot of evil in the world, and much of it happens unexplainably. In the history of life on Earth bad things have happened and evil has caused problems. In relation to some world

Avoiding evil does make one virtuous, but requires an active choice. They can't live without out one another. A reason

evil," which should be judged on its ability to provide these things for society. This argument

The reason that we even have an experience of a perceived evil is because for the soul to experience itself as any particular thing, the exact opposite of that thing must come into the realm of existence. In other words, in this relative existence, hot cannot be hot without cold, darkness cannot be without light, and you cannot be you without that which is not you. So I believe that what we call evil is just the opposite end of the spectrum of good, not something separate.

evil creates or brings good. Yet, if there was only good we would not have to

In a world of chaos, he who lives, lives by his own laws and values. Who is to say that the death of millions is any worse or better, for that matter, than injuring a cockroach. And in the case of an existing power in the form of God, who is presumed to be all which is good, presiding and ruling an organized universe, why then does evil exist? The prosaic response of "without evil, there is no good" no longer holds any validity in this argument as the admitted goal of good is to reach an existence without evil. So even if a God does exist, I think it is fair, at this point, to say that he is the embodiment of both good and evil. And if humoring those who would answer the previous question with the response that there can be no good

A possible solution to the problem of evil is the Augustinian theodicy which is based on Genesis. St Augustine argued that in genesis 1 God is seen as creating a world that is perfectly good and free from defect. He said that this was clearly outlined in G1:31 where it says “God saw what he had made and it was very good.” He believed that evil itself is not a thing or substance therefore God did not create it. Augustine argue that “evil was the going wrong of something good and as a result Augustine termed evil as a “privation of a good” that did not come from God but entities with free will such as angels and humans who were willing to give

To understand evil we must first understand the concept that good and evil are term or words referring to what one given individuals believes to be the right and wrong thing to do. Good, many times

Evil and good must coexist in order to exist? If there is evil there has to be a good because good needs to fight evil for there to be a balance in life. So evil and good have to coexist to exist. For example if a person robbed a bank there has to be a good to stop the person from stealing the money. So that why we have cops to stop the bad people because if we did not have cops the world would be chaos. Another example is in every superhero movie,book, and show there has to be bad to stop the hero from saving the world from bad but the thing is that there is always going to be evil in the world. No matter how many superheroes are protecting the world there is always going to be something trying to do evil. So the answer to the question is

“ Inside each of us there is the seed of both good and evil. It is a consistent struggle as to which one will win. One cannot exist without the other.” – Eric Burdon