Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Niagara of Faith. Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...
...People," said he, "must come to accept private enterprise, not as a necessary evil, but as an affirmative good. Governments must cease just tolerating private business; they must welcome its contribution and go out of their way to attract it and even to woo it. And there must be a fundamental reversal of the traditionally hostile attitude, by governments and peoples alike, toward the profit motive...
...need for dedicated advisers and investors was a constant theme with Asian and African delegates, resentful of colonial exploitation. But Iran's Ebtehaj pointed up another evil heritage: the bitter memory of exploitation of the people of underdeveloped countries by their own kind. Free enterprise still suffers in Iran, Ebtehaj said, from a "disastrous" experiment before World War II. Locally owned textile mills were established. Many small investors bought stock. The big stockholders, who exercised control, robbed the mills by overcharging for raw cotton they sold to the mills and underpaying for finished textiles they bought back from...
...smoking by members of religious orders as self-indulgence (TIME, Sept. 30). Arguing that because he is God's property, an individual has no right to endanger himself foolishly, Connell nevertheless admits that dangerous acts can sometimes be justified by the "principle of double effect" (both good and evil resulting from the same act, with the good more weighty). Scientists, he notes, have given preponderant evidence that excessive cigarette smoking greatly increases the probability of lung cancer, while moderate smoking increases the likelihood only slightly. Common sense shows that a slight danger may be risked, even if the only...
...seems based mostly on Nietzsche's inversion of all Christian values, with an admixture of Adam Smith economics and David Hume ethics, both carried to absurd extremes. The greatest sin is following the Sermon on the Mount. Selfishness is the highest good, the spirit of sacrifice the worst evil. In shrill outcry against government and religion, Author Rand defines taxes as "protection money" paid to "gangsters," and the doctrine of Original Sin as responsible for destroying Man's "reason, morality, creativeness, joy." She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism-to set up a kind of materialist morality in which...