Utopia absenței răului ca premisă a acestuia (studiu de caz: romanul Noi de Evgheni Zamiatin)
Utopia of the absence of evil as its premise (Case study: the novel Noi by Evgheni Zamiatin)

Summary/Abstract: The problem of evil has raised many concerns among the philosophers and theologians, which tried during centuries of Christianity, and even before, to give a plausible answer to the question of evil’s existence onto the world. Thus, based on competent opinions, we intend to discuss in this paper the problem of evil in relation to the dystopian fiction of Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, and the attempt, made by the One State, to eliminate evil (under all its aspects: social, moral, metaphysical, natural). We will try to prove that such endeavors are not only against human nature and the nature of God, but are also unsustainable in the long term, for, in order to reach a certain degree of authenticity, the freedom of choice must be maintained. The good, according to the opinions quoted in the paper, means not the constraint to do good, but the choice to do it – in the context in which the evil was also possible; thus choice represents, in the end, the defining element of any conceptual distinction between good and evil.

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