Why We Need the Word Evil - Jean Bethke Elshtain

[lou123654]

would you call abu graib and guantanamo as Evil, miss JB ?

[walrusboyv2]

It has disappeared from academic corridors because, as human history has progressed, people who actually think, instead of regurgitate their predecessors rhetoric, have noticed countless discrepancies in a binary analysis of the existence. To reduce your so called "creation" down to a pair of words like "good" and "evil" not only undersells the beauty and complexity of said "creation," but it exposes a well educated and free-thinking society to all sorts of civil and social ills.

[FAHayek89]

@walrusboyv2 Yet she never said that all things must be reduced to a binary existence of good and evil. She did not say that no shades of gray exist, but that some things are sufficiently evil to be called so. The gray may in some cases be dark enough to fade into a real black. We may notice discrepancies, but still call the project in Dachow, as a whole, evil.

[FluffyMittensFilms]

I love this lecture by Jean Bethke Elshtain! What a brilliant woman! We need more from her!

[xaymaca2020]

I love this series.;