Скачать или смотреть The Question of Evil | Andrew Klavan

What is evil? Is it merely a social construct, a shadow cast by human psychology, or something far more real—and more terrifying? In this personal and philosophically rich episode, Crime Novelist Andrew Klavan explores the nature of evil as a rupture in love, a failure to recognize the divine image in others, and a refusal to see ourselves in them.

He argues that evil is not just wrongdoing but a metaphysical disconnect from the love that binds human beings to one another and to God. At its most extreme—such as in murder—evil becomes the total erasure of another person’s inner experience, the denial that their life matters as much as your own.

Klavan also probes our cultural obsession with evil—why it fascinates us, why it terrifies us, and why it forces us to confront the boundary between right and wrong. He suggests that this fascination arises from an inescapable moral instinct within us: the belief that we are meant to become someone better than we are, guided by a North Star that is, ultimately, God.

And what of the age-old question: how can an all-good, all-powerful God permit evil? Rather than offering a tidy answer, Klavan reframes the question, suggesting that our yearning for justice—and our heartbreak in the face of suffering—are themselves signs pointing toward a moral order beyond this world.

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