The accusation that he sold full forgiveness for sins not yet committed, caused great scandal ; Martin Luther considered his actions evil, and began to preach openly against him.

saw him as a major source of the republicanism that spread throughout England and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries and Leo, whose view of Machiavelli is quite different in many ways, agreed about Machiavelli's influence on republicanism and argued that even though Machiavelli was a teacher of evil he had a nobility of spirit that led him to advocate ignoble actions.

A common theme in Anderson's works, and one with obvious origins in the Northern European legends, is that doing the " right " ( wisest ) thing often involves performing actions that, at face value, seem dishonorable, illegal, destructive, or downright evil.

And Tamas karmas ( actions related to inertia, laziness and evil ) condemn one to patala-loka.

Zoroastrianism, claimed to be “ the oldest of the revealed world-religions ” and founded by the Prophet Zoroaster ( or Zarathustra ) opposed animal sacrifices but held the rooster as a " symbol of light " and associated the cock with " good against evil " because of his heraldic actions.

Another point is that those actions of free beings which bring about evil very often diminish the freedom of those who suffer the evil-for example, the murder of a young child ( e. g. Death of Baby P ) may prevent the child from ever exercising their free will in a significant way.

Every thing depends upon the evil of the second order ; it is this which gives to such actions the character of crime, and which makes punishment necessary.

… It is not on account of the evil of the first order that it is necessary to erect these actions into offences, but on account of the evil of the second order .”

In anthropological terminology, a " witch " differs from a sorcerer in that they do not use physical tools or actions to curse ; their maleficium is perceived as extending from some intangible inner quality, and the person may be unaware that they are a " witch ", or may have been convinced of their own evil nature by the suggestion of others.

God obeys the laws of logic because God is eternally logical in the same way that God doesn't perform evil actions because God is eternally good.

People then have an objective source for their standard of morality by which to condemn evil thoughts and actions ( or to commend good ones ).

" This tension and the absence of a clear " evil nature " ( distinct from evil actions ) offer Fett dramatic appeal.

Heller emphasizes the danger of profit seeking by portraying Milo without “ evil intent ;" Milo ’ s actions are portrayed as the result of greed, not malice.

Regina's actions cause Alexandra to finally understand the importance of not idly watching people do evil.

It also appears to reflect the subset of Gnostic beliefs that all material things of this world are inherently evil, or at best temporary, and that only invisible, spiritual thoughts and actions can draw us closer to God.

Peel was concerned primarily with preserving the institutions of government, and he considered reform as an occasional necessary evil to preclude the possibility of much more radical or tumultuous actions.

The book South Park and Philosophy: You Know, I Learned Something Today includes an essay in which Johnson uses Cartman's actions and behavior as examples when discussing the logical problem of moral evil, and another essay by College of Staten Island professor Mark D. White cited the season two ( 1998 ) episode " Chickenlover ", in which Cartman is temporarily granted law enforcement powers, in its discussion regarding the command theory of law and what obligates a citizen to obey the law.

She raised the question of whether evil is radical or simply a function of thoughtlessness, a tendency of ordinary people to obey orders and conform to mass opinion without a critical evaluation of the consequences of their actions and inaction.

* Romans 9-Paul relates ( 9: 9-13 ) how the destinies of Jacob and Esau were fixed by God before either had done any good or evil works, and concludes ( 9: 14-18 ) that salvation and damnation are determined not by man's will or actions, but by God's will.

* Moral absolutism, the position that there are absolute standards against which moral questions can be judged, and that certain actions are either good or evil, regardless of the context of the act

His actions have given the world five years of relative peace, and mankind has been creating its own evil during that time.

The evil demon problem originally motivated skepticism, but can be resuited to object to reliabilist accounts as follows: If our experiences are controlled by an evil demon, it may be the case that we believe ourselves to be doing things that we are not doing.

Tom Swift, Jr .' s Cold War-era adventures and inventions are often motivated by patriotism, as Tom repeatedly defeats the evil agents of the fictional " Kranjovia " and " Brungaria ", the latter a place that critic Francis Molson describes as " a vaguely Eastern European country, which is strongly opposed to the Swifts and the U. S. Hence, the Swifts ' opposition to and competition with the Brungarians is both personal and patriotic.

The main character is often motivated by a desire to protect his or her loved ones or protect the innocent from evil.

In turn the sisters summoned the Angel of Destiny, who warned them of an impending great evil force, that Leo's death would be the only motivation to give the sisters the will to fight the great evil, in the same manner that their sister Prue's death motivated them to defeat The Source.

At this point Kirk states that the representatives of evil were motivated by a desire for power, while the good side was motivated by the requirement to protect the members of the Enterprise crew, implying that it is not the methods but the ends that distinguish good and evil.

" Other notable instances included his closing argument as prosecutor in the 1876 murder trial of John Kehoe, vilified at the time as the " King of the Mollie Maguires ," in which he portrayed the murders and other crimes attributed to Mollies as being an evil unparalleled in all human history, and as not locally motivated, but driven by orders from other places — Pittsburgh, New York — even other lands — England, Ireland, Scotland ; and his three-hour argument in 1881 before a gathering of outraged stockholders of the bankrupt Reading Railroad, inside Philadelphia's Academy of Music, by which he turned open hostility into enthusiastic rounds of applause One twentieth-century commentator described Gowen's oratory skills thus:

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.

This is an ethical demand which cannot be evaded or glossed over by talking exclusively of weapon superiority or even of the evil of Communism.

On the positivist theory, everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second.

A teenage girl, Abigail Williams, is being sharply questioned by her minister uncle, the Reverend Samuel Parris, about a wild night affair in the woods in which she and some other girls had seemed to have had contact with these evil beings.

Yet it seems clear that there can be no good sufficiently great, or evil repelled sufficiently grave, to warrant the destruction of mankind by man's own action.

If an evil which is certain and extensive and immediate may rarely be compensated for by a problematic, speculative, future good, by the same token not every present, certain, and immediate good ( or lesser evil ) that may have to be done will be outweighed by a problematic, speculative, and future evil.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

But one does not have to affirm the existence of an evil order irredeemable in that sense, or a static order in which no changes will take place in time, to be able truthfully to affirm the following fact: there has never been justitia imprinted in social institutions and social relationships except in the context of some pax-ordo preserved by clothed or naked force.

The Abernathy furnace consumed fuel like a giant ravenous maw that had to be appeased by hurling tons of coal into its evil red depths, and no matter how much coal they put in the house remained cold.

The slavery issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism in the United States, or a state system protected by the Constitution.

He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.

Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish lord Macbeth, chooses evil as the way to fulfill his ambition for power.

As Kenneth Muir writes, " Macbeth has not a predisposition to murder ; he has merely an inordinate ambition that makes murder itself seem to be a lesser evil than failure to achieve the crown.

In addition to combating Igthorn's ambition, the Gummis regularly encounter other evil humans and magical beings ranging from wizards to gods, all the while attempting to hide their existence from the world at large.

A very bright person, so he has big ambition ( He plays the evil role.

As he lies on his deathbed, Edmund watches as his family drinks wine, accidentally poisoned by Lord Percy when he tried to poison the evil men, thereby finally attaining his lifelong ambition of becoming king.

Though in Alabaster his ambition develops to the point of narcissism he never becomes the most evil of Tezuka's characters ( a role developed in the character of Yuki ).

Failure or unwillingness of people to suppress their excessive ambition, selfishness and lust for power " generates divisions, parties, hatred and evil, which in essence were a result of those destructive passions ".