Acknowledgement
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In the philosophy of Louis Labelle, the subject of "good and evil", which is rarely discussed in modern philosophy, emerges as a very important concept. In his reasoning, the notion of evil starts from a passive stipulation of the Scholastic philosophy of "the lack of being", but he defined the evil, which actually exists in the world with more positive sense as a willing force destroying "life and values". In his reasoning that defines "the presence of evil" as "le scandale du monde", all humans have the possibility of evil as an attitude of will, and the presence of evil in the world and in human society is inevitable. On the other hand, because the outcome of evil appears as physical and mental "pain", the human's attitude toward pain, which attempts to deny suffering, induces a moral will to overcome this evil. The moral anguish, which is the "internal suffering" that we have in front of the presence of evil, makes us conscious of becoming a "moral being", and people become self-satisfied here. Although painful, self-satisfaction and happiness about becoming a moral being is the only occasion and motive for man to overcome this by opposing the presence of evil. In other words, Lavelle's thoughts for good and evil are based on "moral psychologism", and the "coherence of psychological horizons and ethical horizons" between rejection of suffering and moral agony enables "ethical optimism" that man constantly overcomes evil and produces good. This is clearly an advanced modern application of scholasticism on the concept of evil.
루이라벨의 사상에서는 현대철학에서 거의 다루지 않고 있는 '선과 악'에 대한 주제가 매우 중요한 개념으로 등장하고 있다. 그의 사유에서 악의 개념은 '악이란 존재의 부족'이라는 스콜라철학의 소극적인 규정에서 출발하고 있지만, 세계에 현존하는 악이란 '삶과 가치'를 파괴하는 의지적인 힘으로, 즉 도덕적인 차원에서 보다 적극적인 의미로 규정하고 있다. '악의 현존(la
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