Humane Philosophy Project (HPP)

Abstract Guilt is usually viewed as a backward-looking emotion – someone did something wrong in the past and has now come to understand the full gravity or the wrong and feels really bad about it. The aim of my talk is to challenge this common assumption and to expand our understanding of guilt by defending the existence,...

Abstract: An historical analysis of the concept of evil reveals a high degree of historical relativism in what has counted as evil at different times. Though the classical tradition understood evil in metaphysical terms, since the Enlightenment evil has been seen as a human, moral phenomenon. Plato, and following him St Augustine, saw evil in terms...