PHL 262 - Problem of Evil

Course Units: 1.0

Some actions are bad. Some actions are very bad. Some actions are very, very, very bad. Are there, in addition, actions which are evil? In other words, does “evil” mark out a form of wrongdoing that is qualitatively different from the bad or is it simply a synonym for “bad” or at most a term we reserve for marking a merely quantitative difference between bad and very bad actions? Much turns on how we decide to answer these questions - concerning both the nature of morality and of the world we inhabit. CC: HUM