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Age of Mythology
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Life and Death, good and evil are united in one Ironic
Truth.
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Homer: Achilles
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Evil derives from insecurity about self which cannot bear
humiliation.
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Homer: Odysseus
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Evil is the inevitable ‘trouble’ in life which provides
the opportunity for heroism.
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Socrates/ Plato
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Evil is ignorance; the Soul is innate and good.
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Aristotle
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Evil is immoderate behavior; good is the mean between
extremes.
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Sophocles
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Evil is innate and ineradicable, but we can take
responsibility for it.
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Ancient Hebrews
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Evil stems from human disobedience (free will), but so
does wisdom.
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Epicurus
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Evil is pain; good is pleasure.
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Lucretius
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Evil stems from the fear of death.
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Jesus
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Evil is unavoidable, but grace is possible.
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St. Augustine
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Evil is the absence of God.
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Chaucer
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Evil is the perversion of natural instinct.
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Machiavelli
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Macbeth
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Shakespeare
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Locke
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Leibniz (Pope)
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Rousseau
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Voltaire
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