About evil, by: Terry Eaglton

The evil that has spread its presence and overshadowed good in our current era, and for the individual, the meaning of evil appeared in the most traded materials. Egerton rose up, releasing it openly by declaring that evil is the act that results without a reason, leaving behind the common understanding of the idea of evil as the cause of all human desires and passions on earth. And since Egerton, a Marxist theologian, tries to mix between these two contradictory currents, our book "About Evil" did not lack the task adopted by Egerton in most of his philosophical writings. It contains a precise explanation of the concept of evil from psychological, theological, philosophical, and political perspectives, in which Egerton combines Freud's concept of the death drive with the theological concept of original sin. Egerton made contemporary events the basis for weaving his new idea about evil. The author presents two different approaches in interpreting malicious acts and their causes, which we might call bad actions instead of evil. The first, adopted by liberal structuralists, attributes the cause of evil to environmental motives represented by social conditions. The second, adopted by moderate behaviorists, states that there are influences in personality that control the individual's behavior and have a significant impact on their character, leading to bad acts that do not fall under the umbrella of evil. Additionally, the book discusses several influential axes in the individual's personality, which often lead to bad acts that do not fall within the concept of evil. As for how a person becomes evil, the author clarified that the evil person is evil by their own free will, providing examples of this. Number of pages: 178