The Real Evil

Beyond Good, Beyond God: The Ultimate Philosophy of Evil

De: Boris Kriger

Narrado por: Bethany Johnston

This book undertakes a multidisciplinary inquiry into the nature, origins, and operations of evil as a metaphysical, structural, and psychological phenomenon. Departing from traditional moral frameworks that reduce evil to individual acts of cruelty or moral failure, the text situates evil as an ontological force—at times preceding being, at other times emerging from systems, language, desire, and the very architecture of order.

Drawing on philosophy, theology, psychoanalysis, political theory, and media studies, the book explores evil not as aberration but as intrinsic shadow: not only in violence, but in algorithms, economies, institutions, and speech. It considers how evil is made banal through administrative logic, how innocence becomes a target in sacrificial configurations of power, and how justice can, under certain conditions, become indistinguishable from the violence it seeks to rectify.

The study engages with a series of conceptual inversions—anti-creation, anti-logos, anti-empathy—probing the thresholds at which good becomes indistinct from harm, and where ethical language becomes complicit in its own failure. It treats victimhood, domination, simulation, and silence not merely as ethical concerns, but as sites in which evil is rehearsed, concealed, or ritualized.

Rather than offering a unified theory or a theological resolution, the work fragments its inquiry across metaphysical and cultural registers, assembling a constellation of perspectives in which evil is examined as structure, motive, form, and absence. The result is not a taxonomy of moral transgression, but a philosophical excavation of a concept that resists naming, persists through systems, and continually reconstitutes itself beneath the surface of ethical life.

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