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1596 Rene Descartes
Voltaire (1694-1778):
Voltaire (1694-1778): Based on the
enlightenment age, defied the excuse for evil
and protested the injustice of the human
condition. Voltaire distrusted democracy,
because he thought all of the people were
unintelligent.
1711, David Hume
Worked to devise a naturalistic science of
man as part of the Scottish Enlightenment.
1712 Jean Jacques Rousseau
He argued natural evil should be understood
to ha no inherent meaning.
1724 Immanuel Kant
Providence itself requires that we cannot
know it
1740 Marquis De Sade
Supported rebellious tradition defying
the explanation of evil. Protested
injustice of human condition.
1755 Lisbon Earthquake
Exposed Leibniz to ridicule
and discredited the effort to
explain natural evil.
1770 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Hege
1778 Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer
Life Presents itself as continual
deception in small matters as in great.
He rejected the excuse of evil and
protested the injustice of the human
condition.
1804 Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (German philosopher 1724-
1804): He believed that reason was the
foundation for human morality and that we
must assume responsibility of evil in our lives.
1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Nietzsche (1844-1900)
He Believed the human spirit will be
attacked by evil and that human bring
it upon themselves, by their own
actions. This idea was that people
could live their life in a wrong way.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
She Coined the phrase "the banality of evil."
Described the phenomenon of Eichmann of
whether evil is radical or simply a function
of thoughtlessness. She believed the
tendency of people to obey orders and
submit to conformity.
WW1 (1914-1918)
The war that brought about old-
fashioned imperialism and early modern
technology. The bad things that occur in
war remains outside of our normal
thoughts.
Auschwitz- holocaust (1940-1945)
A Nazi concentration camp that most
people declare as evil. The intention
manslaughter showed the horrendous side
humans could exhibit. The memory and now
story grew in the imagination over time. It
acquired significance in relation to the web
of beliefs in which it occurred.
Daniel Gold Hagen (1959-present)
He writes that during the Holocaust many killers
were ordinary people (Germans), who anti-Semitic
(prejudice against Jews), because of the culture
they had been raised in. This means they were
acculturated "ready and willing" to execute
the Nazi's genocidal plans.
Ahmed AL Bouri
Professor Sinclair
LBST 2101
11/7/2017
A HISTORY of EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT