Dr. Mario O. Laplume Dr. Mario O. Laplume

Following our series on the Concept of Evil , we discuss the latest modern theories about Evil like the dispositional, affect-based and motivation-based accounts. We also discuss the Evil institutions and the very controversial classification of Marriage and Motherhood as being Evil by Claudia Card.

We continue discussing the concept of Evil with the opinions of Hannah Arendt, Garrard, Lawrence Thomas, M'Naughton, etc. We focus on the association of Evil with Harm, Motivation, Bad Upbringings and Ignorance.

We discuss the necessity and various philosophical and sociological implications of the concept of Evil, in view of the recent developments from the barbaric Russian invasion of the Ukrainian Nation. We start by discussing the traditional back and forth arguments between the Evil-skeptics and the Evil-revivalists.

We discuss the recent developments of the War in Ukraine where the invading Russian Army is expressly targeting the civilian population of the besieged cities, a crime akin to the bombardment of Guernica by the German Luftwaffe in 1936. Inspired by this tragedy, Pablo Picasso painted his homonymous tableau in 1937 for the Republican Spanish Pavilion of the Paris Exposition.

We discuss the horrible consequences of the Russian aggression in Ukraine, daring to speak out as honest intellectuals. Humbly emulating  Miguel de Unamuno when he said on October 12, 1936, reacting to a fascist crowd chant of "Viva la Muerte" (Long live Death), that "Callar es Mentir" (to keep quiet is to lie) We cannot remain silent because the future of Democracy is being contested right now in Ukraine, the emotional heart of Europe. No pasaran!!!

We discuss how the brutal invasion of Ukraine by the powerful Russian Military machine is not only the unprovoked aggression of an independent, democratic country but also an assault of the very socio-economic system of democratic institutions that we enjoy in half of the planet. The world is no longer divided into Right and Left camps but in those countries with democratic institutions like the USA and autocracies like Russia.