Trinity University’s Prof Randall Nadeau gave a speech on the problem of evil in Western and Chinese philosophy at UIC on 21 March.
Prof Randall Nadeau analysed good and evil in Chinese philosophy from the perspective of parts of speech and compared the meanings with the ones in Western philosophy.
He illustrated that “evil” meant “to hate” as a verb, which was used positively in most instances. As an adjective, it meant “base”, “mean” and even “unsavoury”. And as a noun, it came closest to the general idea “evil”, such as bad qualities and wrong-doing. He said that “evil” represented the metaphysical source of sin in religion in the West, which is different from the specific bad qualities in Chinese philosophy.
The lecture was organised by the Whole Person Education Office.
Reporter: Zeng Kaishan (CELL, Year 1)
Photographer: Lin Zhiyan (IJ, Year 1)
Editor: Deen He
(from MPRO, with special thanks to the ELC)
