From my years in middle school, I recall one occasion when a teacher used the word "evil". It was a history teacher, and he said that we were about to study one of the rare examples of pure evil. The subject was Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. I was struck by his opening description. As far as I could recall, no teacher had ever called anything "evil" before. None ever did so since then either, until I went to philosophy classes in which examples of "evil" things would appear occasionally, mainly in metaethical discussions.
The Memory of Evil
The Memory of Evil
The Memory of Evil
From my years in middle school, I recall one occasion when a teacher used the word "evil". It was a history teacher, and he said that we were about to study one of the rare examples of pure evil. The subject was Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. I was struck by his opening description. As far as I could recall, no teacher had ever called anything "evil" before. None ever did so since then either, until I went to philosophy classes in which examples of "evil" things would appear occasionally, mainly in metaethical discussions.