What is it about?

Moral evil is one of the most compelling problems of our age, yet the least understood. Independent scholar Thomas White marshals a wide variety of sources, demonology, theology, philosophy, crime reports, literary criticism, novels, poetry, psychology, films, and history, to argue that moral evil is an objective force. This essay is a journey to the Dark Side, but based on reason not superstition, or the Occult.

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Why is it important?

Because moral evil is such a compelling problem, a correct understanding of its nature is essential in order to confront it as more than a mere psychological aberration. Understanding moral evil has real world consequences. Perhaps moral evil cannot be "cured" as if it were a "mental illness", but is something more fundamental , which cannot be so easily remedied.

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I wrote this essay to illuminate the dark places in which moral evil lives in order to protect the vulnerable, and reaffirm empathy as essential to civilization and humanity.

Mr Thomas White
Independent Scholar

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This page is a summary of: The Hollow Men, CrossCurrents, December 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cros.12168.
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