Posted by Jost on September 23, 2006, at 11:51:56
In reply to Re: Evil, posted by SLS on September 6, 2006, at 16:44:28
The concept of evil isn't one that comes naturally to me.
I use the word occasionally for its emotional or rhetorical effect, if I especially feel horrified or repelled by some act of someone--or acts-- but I don't mean it literally. I mean it figuratively--
For me, evil has a religious significance, not just a moral one-- or it's a type of reification of something more fluid and unspecifiable, located in action, not in thingness.
I personally separate morality from religion, even though religions embrace many moral principles.
Jost
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