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Full Idea
There is no more reason to think of evil as deviation from the good than there is to think of the good as deviation from evil.
Gist of Idea
Evil is not deviation from the good, any more than good is a deviation from evil
Source
John Kekes (Against Liberalism [1997], 02.2)
Book Ref
Kekes,John: 'Against Liberalism' [Cornell 1997], p.29
A Reaction
This is a political moderate right winger defending the concept of evil as a basic and inescapable component of existence, in contrast to liberals who tend to deny 'pure evil'.