Premium Content The Impossibility of Evil Without Ignorance and the Progression Toward Good
By Caitlin Quance - February 15, 2003
As society's rules and ideals have changed over time, so have their
definitions of evil been completely revolutionized. While today evil is something morally wrong, a violation of some universal law, it was not always seen in the same light. St. Augustine and Plato both characterized evil as simply an absence of good. Since both men equated good…
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