The Great Gig In The Sky

Evil is the force in nature that governs and gives rise to the wickedness. Evil is a very complex subject that one may consider unpleasant. However, evidence shows that evil does exist, and has existed since the beginning of mankind. No Country for Old Men displays the works and consequences of evil forces. No Country for Old Men illustrates evil through the greed and lust of money. According to God, “Money is the root of all evil” (1 Timothy 6/10). Money has a strange phenomenon that can result in misery beyond human perception. In the Coen brothers movie an evil individual discovers that he can obtain a vast amount of money, after a drug deal that went awfully wrong. This event causes a chain reaction of murderous rampages, which claims the lives of many people. The murderous rampages were led by the devil himself. The devil took the form of a human being named Anton Chigurh. Chigurh is an extremely evil individual with no conscience. According McCarthy, Chigurh impersonate a police officer and kills an innocent man simply to steal his car (7/309). The code of law that Chigurh represents is a code of evil and criminality. He murdered everyone that attempted to cross his path without

It would appear that evil exists in our world. Millions of people are starving across the world, nations are constantly at war, natural disasters take countless innocent lives, and the hand of man has bestowed great injustice unto his brothers throughout history, from the Inquisition to the Holocaust. Evil seems rampant and senseless.

When I think of the concept of “evil,” I think of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. In The Consolation of Philosophy, Lady Philosophy stated:

There is a lot of evil in the world, and much of it happens unexplainably. In the history of life on Earth bad things have happened and evil has caused problems. In relation to some world

evil, it is what you percieve of it. He also said people are not evil, they

People are always getting into situations that have two possible ways to go. That person can choose the right thing to do or the worse. There have been numerous amounts of people asking the question “what is good and evil?” Many have tried conducting experiments to try and find the roots of what makes people good/evil? Evil acts and evil itself can be shown through the social, economic, and mental environment.

one to gain power and wealth in the most horrendous manner is greed. Every action has an

In this paper, I would like to explore several responses to this argument, the nature of evil, and to explain why some evils might be a necessity.

evil, that is taught just like, racism, and greed. Evil is brought throughout experience and life

The love of money is the root of all evil? How does the love of money have evil results for:

The most influential definition of evil is nicely summarised by Swinburne proclaimed when discussing about evil, context is very important factors to consider when talking about the subject of evil he said evil include physical pain, for

William Shakespeare was clearly trying to warn us of the evils in the world when he wrote Macbeth. Unfortunately, being human requires the inevitable vulnerability towards evil temptations; that is just how we were made. Greed is one of humanity’s worst traits, and it infects so many people as it traverses across the world. Thousands of people are lured into the hands of ambition as well, as they do whatever it takes to obtain power and wealth. These epidemics are definitely not helped by the way the world is today. As the saying goes, “the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer”. This causes more and more people to do drastic things, including evil things in order to live good lives, however, these lives they live will never be good lives if they are filled with evil. For evil creates paranoia and heavy guilt upon a person’s conscience.

evil. The good does not always triumph. Sometimes the dark side overcomes what Lincoln called the better angels of our nature." This quote explains what General Corman

Evil, as mentioned before, is commonly referred to the act or actions that go directly against what is to be considered good. Good, or a set or morals and believes, have differed between the many generation that have existed over time. One must properly understand that what they believe to be pure evil could be seen as doing the right thing in the eyes of others. Evil has a very bias perception to its definition, but is always measured by the same means no matter where what and when it is describes. Evil is the

The problem of evil is as ancient as humanity itself. Since the dawn of man, thinkers, philosophers, religionists and practically every human being who have suffered at the hands of evil have pondered this enigma, either as a logical-intellectual-philosophical or emotional-religious-existential problem. The preponderance of evil as a reality in human existence, and