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This book about evil is related to the metaphor of “tentacles of evil.” It has been inspired by the consideration of Elie Wiesel, also shared by Furio Colombo in his intelligent and clear preface, that “evil is not the opposite of good” but something profoundly different to explore and analyze. Therefore, it attempts to address and describe some aspects of evil regardless of what in different contexts is described as “the good.” This “secular” view is basically shared by almost all authors, regardless of their religious confession and their metaphysical beliefs.
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Pacifici, G., Dryjanska, L. (2022). Afterword: The Obscure Component. In: Dryjanska, L., Pacifici, G. (eds) Evil in the Modern World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91888-0_14
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