ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several existing definitions of evil in psychology and philosophy and explains the problems arising from these definitions and why they are hard pressed to characterise the essential nature of evil. It also presents a new moral psychology outlining what the decisive factors are in the making of moral judgements. The chapter focuses on the theory to show that an experience of evil can only be formed in an observer's mind if certain conditions are present. It shows that there is an inherent gap between the experience of the observer and that of the perpetrator. The chapter argues that the observer is almost always mistaken in his attributions of a certain state of mind to the perpetrator. It discusses the philosophical and cultural significance of this gap. Dynamical systems are powerful in their ability to integrate many real-time sources of information. There are a number of nodes with connections that can be positive or negative.
