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Our perception of good and evil is something that we cannot really define ourselves. What we find as good or evil is determined by how we have grown up. What one finds as good is what another can find as evil. The concept is not mutually agreeable. The idea of good and evil is what I find to be a complex topic. Good and evil can be perceived differently depending on the person and how they grew up. Yet, there is a standard of what is good and what is evil. The first question in mind when we think about the topic of good and evil is a god. There is a saying that God created us out of good, but then why is there evil if the intention was good. Is it that with good comes evil? I think that with ideas there is always a counterpart that is the opposite that we need to exist. We need something to call something that we do not find as good so we would call it rather evil. So with good, there must be evil then. There has to be a counterpart to an idea. I believe that there has to be a counterpart to everything. It is how we humans tend to analyze things. We need that counterpart in order to help us better define what is what.
I found a site that talks about the illusory theory of goodness and evil. According to the author of the post, “...the illusory theory of goodness, our application of “good” and “evil” is a construction.” It is something that can be crafted to ourselves for what we think is good or evil.
The idea we exist because God is good is a contradicting idea. If God is good, then why is there evil? Why is it that god let there be evil then? If he created creatures from good, why did some turn bad. With goodness there is evil, just like any other idea, there is always another that counters it.
What do we find as good? Is it that we are born with goodness? Or do we learn how to be this so-called theory of good? I do not believe that good is something that we are born with. I think that we are born with innocence and a pure mind before it gets disrupted in the process of growing up. One can easily learn to be good, but that is not what it takes to be good. Just learning it is only a part of it, but not everyone ends up or wants to be what we call good.
What do we find as evil? If you remember what I previously said, God creates out of good, but then what about Satan? He was created good, but he became the exact opposite. I do not know the story of this as I am not Christian or was exposed to this type of literature, but I do know that just because one was intended for goodness does not mean they will end up living to the purpose.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/concept-evil/
https://simplyphilosophy.org/good-and-evil-illusion/
http://estudantedavedanta.net/Philosophy_good_evil.pdf
This was very interesting to read! And the videos helped a lot with a couple of the concepts that I hard time understanding. It's so interesting learning how complicated humans are and how we have to determine whether our actions are considered "bad" or "good".
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