Problem of 'Evil' as an Issue of Education
The problem of evil: what is evil? where does it come from? Why does it persist? So-called 'evil' is human wickedness which is a function of human psychopathology and not a function of the the nature of the human personality or 'human nature'. The human species is a social species which depends on complete development of its moral faculty for effective socialization necessary for species survival. Those people considered to be 'evil' are really just retarded in the sense that they are not fully human. They are not healthy specimens of the species because they lack the intuitive intelligence and sense of empowerment which results from complete moral or 'spiritual' development. They are disempowered as a result of arrested development and will compensate for their sense of disempowerment by their drive to hold onto the power of control over other human beings. When this drive is combined with authoritarianism and dominance their influence can be deadly.
The problem of evil: what is evil? where does it come from? Why does it persist? So-called 'evil' is human wickedness which is a function of human psychopathology and not a function of the the nature of the human personality or 'human nature'. The human species is a social species which depends on complete development of its moral faculty for effective socialization necessary for species survival. Those people considered to be 'evil' are really just retarded in the sense that they are not fully human. They are not healthy specimens of the species because they lack the intuitive intelligence and sense of empowerment which results from complete moral or 'spiritual' development. They are disempowered as a result of arrested development and will compensate for their sense of disempowerment by their drive to hold onto the power of control over other human beings. When this drive is combined with authoritarianism and dominance their influence can be deadly.
Man's 'animal nature' as the human personality or 'human nature' is not 'evil'. The human organism has an instinctive responsibility to itself to develop its humanness as a function of moral consciousness or rational 'conscience' the source of guiding values for living... the source of self-empowerment which is required for adaptation to changing social conditions or 'adaptability'. Normal human psychological development involves the construction of conscience. So what is evil, where does it come from and why does it persist? The so-called 'problem of evil' can only be understood in terms of the psychology of human development. Evil is the socially unnadaptive and destructive behaviour of human wickedness. When development of rational conscience is arrested at the level of ego-needs for security and self-esteem, the result is a process of neurotic development or 'neurosis' which is characterised by a pervasive sense of powerlessness which becomes the source of negative emotions and internal conflicts leading to the construction of immature irrational conscience. It is the failure to develop mature rational conscience which is the source of evil and evil persists as a result of the failure to recognize the importance of providing the conditions required for complete psychological development.... conditions of love as human solidarity without conditions i.e. 'unconditional love'. The problem of evil is an issue of education. Social adaptability is compromised with education which disempowers... authoritarian education. Hence the importance of education for empowerment... for responsible freedom... freedom from fear, freedom from dogma, true freedom or 'inner freedom'... 'freedom to learn' and 'freedom to work'. We can fight evil with education for human empowerment ... education based on respect for biological principles underlying the nature of human nature... education of the whole person as a whole or 'holistic education'.
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