Wickedness
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
wickedness · discord · disease of the soul · the wicked · vice · villainy and wrong · wicked deeds
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Wrongdoing or vice, contrasted with justice as a source of mental torment and vulnerability to exposure.
And just as rashness and lust and cowardice always torment the mind and always vex it and are full of turbulence, so wickedness, if it has settled in anyone's mind, is turbulent by this very fact, that it is present;
And so it is not only on account of those disadvantages which befall the wicked that we think wickedness should be shunned, but much more because, in whosever mind it dwells, it never lets him draw breath, never lets him rest.
But what so great an addition toward lessening the troubles of life can come from wicked deeds, as toward increasing them — both from the consciousness of those deeds, and from the penalty of the laws and the hatred of fellow citizens?
Apology
Moral corruption or evil-doing, argued to be harder to escape than death itself
it is much harder to escape wickedness, for that runs faster than death.
Sophist
One of the two kinds of evil in the soul, understood as an internal discord among naturally related parts (such as desire and opinion), compared to disease in the body and treated by the corrective art of justice.
We must say that there are two kinds of evil in the soul.
Do we say that wickedness is distinct from virtue in the soul?
The one is comparable to a disease in the body, the other to a deformity.