From Theodicy to Anthropodicy

This article defends the idea that evil is a notion dependent on social and cultural judgment, and that in our societies, it implies the idea of free will. There is no metaphysics of evil, but rather an anthropology, a myriad of specifically human incidences linked to situations, to good or evil intentions, to specific relationships such as wars, torture, violence, rape, cruelty, abuse, and so on. Their consequences involve suffering and death, sometimes deliberately. The anthropological question of evil differs from a metaphysical conception of human nature

Criminology · Cruelty · Epistemology · Human rights · Metaphysics · Moral evil · Political ponerology · Political science · Sociology · Theodicy · Torture · Law · Philosophy · Theology and Philosophy of Evil · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification