The Nature of Good & Evil

This volume uses real events and narratives related to good and evil in order to illustrate these two important forms of human behavior. We suggest that processes of love, respect, dignity, caring, compassion and economic and political security for us and others are vitally important. The question remains and has been around for a long time, how do we move humanity from the position or place of doing harm to others to that of intervening on behalf of evil and thereby helping humans and society to unite. There have been a number of studies including our own past publications, which show that people who help others feel better about themselves, and their children feel proud of their parents who have made positive and profound differences to negative human conditions. We know that evil, which we define as the deliberate harming of people in many different ways who are considered by the harm doer as outsiders, will always be around, but the goal is to reduce its intensity and prevent and stop its destructive deeds before they start.

Samuel Oliner
Paragon House, St. Paul, MN, 2011
The Nature of Good & Evil