Justification of Evil

Abstract

The article considers philosophical aspects in the issue of evil, its genesis and principal ontological issues: the good and evil balance, the absoluteness and relativity of evil in history and culture, evil and transcendence, evil and God, evil as a paradox of human existence, evil as a punishment for man and as a possibility salvation. In their analysis, the authors proceed from the assumption that good and evil are the extreme that are unattainable for an ordinary person. Good and evil are the phenomena of life, living only in a special state – that of tension, despair, pity, hatred. Without that transcending (to God or the devil), good and evil are just abstractions. To be evil means to have the opportunity and power to raise oneself to the demonic level or sink into the abyss of the animal state. To be kind means to be holy, at least a very living person, in whom there is no carrion.