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- Title
UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO HUMAN EVIL: A MULTICAUSAL APPROACH.
- Authors
Peters, Karl E.
- Abstract
One task of religion is delivering human beings from evil within and between themselves. Defining good as well-being or functioning well, evil as impaired functioning, and doing evil as impairing the functioning of others, this essay explores how religions in consort with other social institutions might understand and respond to evil in light of contemporary scientific knowledge. To understand evil I use a multicausal approach that includes both biological and sociocultural environmental causes. I illustrate the use of this approach by analyzing how we might understand and respond to human rage and violence.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; GOOD &; evil; LIMBIC system; BRAIN; ANGER; EVOLUTIONARY theories; KONNER, Melvin; NEWBERG, Andrew
- Publication
Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science, 2008, Vol 43, Issue 3, p681
- ISSN
0591-2385
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00948.x