The maliciousness of man

Abstract

There is no doubt that every individual in different life situations have to think involuntarily about why people do evil. Possessing reason, sanity, altruism, the descendant of Adam nevertheless demonstrates radical evil, striking destructiveness, vindictiveness and hatred. Creative activity of the person is often overlapped by large-scale destructiveness: wars, aggression, irrepressible malignity. Recording acts of vandalism, terror, sadism, amoralism, philosophers often exclaimed: "Is it human?!". Finally, it is often written these days that homo sapiens is captured by a powerful drive to self-destruction. He turns out to be a suicide by nature and finished suicidal, what modern thanatosophy authoritatively argues. Addressing the problem of human malevolence, philosophers demonstrate a wide range of worldview positions — moral, ontological, anthropological, social. At the same time, some researchers, in contrast to the man’s inherent malevolence, point to the positive features of this natural creature — reasonableness, creativity, morality and the initial craving for good. So in the writings of different philosophers are born contradictory, incompatible views on human nature.