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Evil 1. The linguistic use of the word ‘evil' spans a spectrum of meaning, extending from an undifferentiated everyday meaning (unhealthy, threatening, or dangerous), to a religious classification (anti-salvific), to a metaphysical explanation of the world in terms of a good and bad principle (evil). It is always elucidated in antithetical correspondence with a counter-concept of good, and always stands in connection with a general explanation of the world. Altogether generally, what is called ‘b…