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Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil

Philosophy Bites

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The Power of Imagination to Fix the Worst Evils

"If we really stare into the abyss, life is not actually tolerable anymore. We live by illusion," he says. "My sense is that it takes a superhuman power to make good on horrendous evil" 'I come to my notion of optimism from my analysis of how bad the worst evils are,' he adds.

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