Assertion: evil's existence | /r/HasProperty | evil
Facets:
value: fundamentally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: It has been contended that existence is fundamentally evil; that evil is the active principle of the universe, and good no more than an illusion, the pursuit of which serves to induce the human race to perpetuate its own existence (see PESSIMISM).
text: Matter and embodied existence are evil, and our ignorance keeps us from attaining perfection as angelic beings.