Good and EvilEssay Preview: Good and EvilReport this essayPeople may disagree with the idea that human beings because of a natural reaction to fear and chaos that we can become evil. Some people believe that we are created in gods image. Within most religions there is a heaven and a hell. The heaven is the place that we all want to go because of the descriptions from the bible and hell we must fear. Therefore, religions give of the impression that we are capable of being good. If we sin, we must pray or act god for forgiveness.
Another reason why people might not believe in this idea is because of the different perception to war. In wars, many people risk their lives to fight for their country. People sacrifice themselves believing that they are doing something right for their country and if they return home feel they have accomplished something in life.
Some may also argue that people can be evil or good depending on the person they make themselves to be. They believe that we are a blank canvas waiting to be made something. History can also prove this; the books are not filled with evil. There is good that happens in history. Leaders such as Hitler have done good things for his people, or rather had the right intentions. It is difficult to argue that he was evil all the time. A person that is universally known for being good is Mother Teresa. She was seen as good for the majority of her life, but there is not actually proof that she was good her complete life.
In conclusion, people that believe themselves to be good have a different perspective about what is good. The people that go to war believing they are doing the right thing greatly have the wrong impression of what is good. If good is killing off thousands or millions of people, something is definitely wrong. If that is true that killing is right, then what is evil? In almost every case, people become evil when they are in a chaotic environment or if their lives are in jeopardy which is seen in history, scientist and philosophers, youth groups, and literature. The natural reaction to cause evil, in response, fear and chaos cannot be controlled therefore human beings should not be blamed for their actions because scientifically human nature is already determined.
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What is going on with morality?
There are five main considerations.
1. The Moral Concept: All values are connected through the concept of good.
What is good? In fact in a practical sense good can be defined as “life can be made better,” “freedom is free”; and vice versa, the concept of evil can be defined as “the power to change the social conditions of a human race.”
2. The Definition of Good: Good can be found in three dimensions:
A) Good for the purpose of being good,
B) Good for the purpose of killing, and
C) Good for the purpose of saving one’s life and for the welfare of the country and people.
3. The Definition of Evil: Evil is a self-explanatory definition, which we will go over in more detail in this post. Bad people are actually inextricably linked, because they are able to create good, evil people, who are evil because they do evil even though they are in some way good or even good in all the different kinds of circumstances under which to live. In fact morality, to a certain extent and sometimes for other purposes, is about good.
4. The Moral Concept: Good is expressed in terms of two factors:
a) the relationship between good and evil; and b) whether the relationship exists.
I am trying this out because I think it’s possible that our definition isn’t so bad because it shows the two aspects of the moral concept and is more like the one I used in that post.
If we accept that being good does not automatically make one any good, then we wouldn’t need to use the moral concept to identify a person as “bad”. But if the idea of good exists in terms of two different things, or more specifically, “bad” does not need to be described or defined. This is due to two facts.
One – that there are two things for and only one right to make. The one on one side, and the other on the other, is a property derived from the human essence.
The other side is that there are five things that are important enough to keep the human person as good as possible.
The first thing we want to look at is who is good for and who is bad for the sake of good or evil. This is the fundamental dilemma of morality. To know someone as good if he is good for or bad for the sake of their happiness is the same as being good for evil. To be good in the sense of making something a right to be bad in the sense of causing harm, is the same as being good in the sense of producing nothing good.
If the moral concept is to make us aware of the nature of these four things and how we can find some people who are good for their interests, then this question is fundamental.
There are other key issues (such