Good And Evil: What Do We Mean By Evil

There are people who define evil as a bad vibe, and others define it as a disaster of nature. On the article, “What do we Mean by Evil” Rollo Roming says,” in centuries past, “Evil” was used to describe all manner of ills, from natural disasters to the impulse to do something wrong” He speaks about different ways that people define evil in their own point of view. A tornado destroying half of a town can be called evil done by Mother Nature, and one person robbing a bank can be called evil since crimes are what people define as evil.

Dr. Jekyll shows how the evil was always inside of his mind but he never expressed it, instead, he created a monster of himself not letting people find out who was behind that monster. P.T. Geach wrote a book on 1952 named “Good and Evil” and in the book he said, “‘good’ and ‘bad’ are always attributive, not predicative, adjectives” and also, “we cannot safely predicate of a bad” Geach is trying to say that the people cannot predict what a bad person will do as their next action. In Ivana Veznikovan book,” The Lucifer Effect: why good people Turn Evil” he said, “the line between good and

de Purucker wrote an article named “Good and evil” and said, “Evil is an entity, a power or a force, which flows forth from heart of something or being” he tries to say that evil can be a force, a force which can drag people down to their evil side and leave no good within them. Fighting a force is hard especially when is an evil force because the good would not be able to fight against it by itself. He also quoted an article the article “they key to theosophy” (p.112) saying, “light would be incomprehensive without darkness to make it manifest by contrast; good would be no longer without evil to show the priceless nature of the boon…” The reason for him to quote this is to show that the good is nothing without the evil, if there is no evil with the good is as if there would be no competition and good would just not be defined as