What is Evil?
Review of Terry Eagleton's book On Evil
My wife and I once ran a course at Woodbrooke on responding to evil, in which painful experiences were lovingly shared. But three participants were dissatisfied. They wanted metaphysics: is evil real, or is it only a shadow, the absence of good? What is its power? Can it control us against our will? Terry Eagleton raises such questions, but never forgets that he is writing about real destruction and real suffering. Evil hurts.
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