Lars Avenden Four Categories Of Evil
Exploring the "dark side" I have raised many personal questions. These questions vary from the seriousness of an evil act or whether or not it should be considered evil. For example, during class we've discussed stupid evil. Personally I don't believe stupid evil is true evil at all. Lars Svendsen’s four categories of evil consist of demonic, instrumental, idealistic, and stupid evil. My belief is Svenden’s four categories of evil should be just three, in thus so removing stupid evil from the list. In removing stupid evil from the four categories of evil it needs to be defined as something new, which I believe should be a horrific accident. Svenden defines stupid evil as “evil that occurs based on human incompetence, despite the fact that
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We witness Adam and Eve being ignorant in their quest to eat the forbidden fruit. However, the two did not eat the forbidden fruit without poor guidance from the serpent. When an individual with knowledge convinces you to do something, you usually will do it, assuming they know what is right and wrong. That’s were Adam and Eves mistake was. They trusted the serpent because he knew what the forbidden fruit would do to them. Instead of listening to the serpent’s remarks, Adam and Eve should have possessed the respect to God and listened to his orders. When God returned to the garden he noticed Adam and Eve knew they were naked. That’s where the mistake of eating the forbidden fruit was brought to …show more content…
I was prepared going into the reading of “The Chain” to expect horrific acts to take place and whether or not I should see these acts as evil. Of course, there are many acts in both the readings, “The Chain” and “Genesis 1-4”, such as the killings. However, just because there are murders in each literally text does not mean every action taken place is evil. An example of the way “Genesis 1-4” shaped the way I read “The Chain” is Adam and Eves acts in the garden and the dog attack in “The Chain”. The particular acts make people quickly think they’re evil. Following the reading of “Genesis 1-4” I was qualified to expect similar deeds in “The
We witness Adam and Eve being ignorant in their quest to eat the forbidden fruit. However, the two did not eat the forbidden fruit without poor guidance from the serpent. When an individual with knowledge convinces you to do something, you usually will do it, assuming they know what is right and wrong. That’s were Adam and Eves mistake was. They trusted the serpent because he knew what the forbidden fruit would do to them. Instead of listening to the serpent’s remarks, Adam and Eve should have possessed the respect to God and listened to his orders. When God returned to the garden he noticed Adam and Eve knew they were naked. That’s where the mistake of eating the forbidden fruit was brought to …show more content…
I was prepared going into the reading of “The Chain” to expect horrific acts to take place and whether or not I should see these acts as evil. Of course, there are many acts in both the readings, “The Chain” and “Genesis 1-4”, such as the killings. However, just because there are murders in each literally text does not mean every action taken place is evil. An example of the way “Genesis 1-4” shaped the way I read “The Chain” is Adam and Eves acts in the garden and the dog attack in “The Chain”. The particular acts make people quickly think they’re evil. Following the reading of “Genesis 1-4” I was qualified to expect similar deeds in “The