Being Evil: A Philosophical PerspectiveWe regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. The 9 11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures their victims is not merely a bad person. They are