Episode 166: Evil

In episode 167 of Overthink, Ellie and David talk about all things evil. They think through the characterization of evil with darkness in Disney, Leibniz’s best of all possible worlds theory, the conflation of evil with badness, and Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil. How does Manichaeism attempt to resolve the problem of evil? Is evil simply the lack of good in the world? Can evil be disambiguated from its religious past? And does evil still have relevance in an age of secular ethics or should we give up on the concept altogether?