Theory of evil
Theory of evilEvil, to some a sense of lacking goodness, or being justly immoral is a definition that has two significant meanings. The question that is posed before me is whether it can be “right to defend oneself against evil by doing evil”. The subject of this Essay is not the so-called definition of evil rather the, so unfortunately opposed argument to what an individual persons idea of what evil is. In class discussions about Socrates his philosophy was to lead a just life or merely good life by not committing any act against good. I believe that the question is a contradiction in itself. I myself try and live a just life through the theories of Socrates by choosing the good way. The reason the question is contradicting itself is because you can’t commit an evil act to protect yourself on the basis that it goes against good therefore being considered evil. The analogy “two wrongs don’t make a right” is somewhat factual; although evil and good is a bipolar neither can be greater in power over the other. An example could be an ordinary housewife takes an axe, and gave her husband forty whacks. Would the public forgive? Maybe the motive was that her husband had a history of destructive abuse by beating his wife. From a legal point of view she did a immoral act by taking the law into her own hands, yet could she be punished on the basis of in her mind she was giving him a moral punishment of evil. I have read in text that there are two types of evil “moral evil that it is product of evil from our own actions, non-moral evil as a product of chance or an act of god”. The verdict could come under intense scrutiny by the theories held by Socrates. I do not believe the verdict can ever be held as being neither an act of evil, or good; nevertheless I am absolutely certain on my presumption that she is guilty, because I am finite and the true reality is infinite, that I can never be absolutely certain of anything being absolutely true. I believe there is truth to her...
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