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Structural evil or systemic evil is evil which arises from structures within human society, such as slavery, rather than from individual wickedness or religious conceptions such as original sin. Rousseau proposed that the structures of human society were the main source of evil in his works such as the Discourse on Inequality (''Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes''). These ideas were influential upon French revolutionaries such as Robespierre. Thomas Nagel is a modern philosopher who has argued that the great evils of the 20th century, such as genocide, required extensive structural support from the societies in which they occurred. Claudia Card is another modern theorist who has defined structural evil as being intolerable harm which results from the normal operation of social structures. Her list of such institutions is controversial as it includes marriage and motherhood. ==See also== *Collective guilt *Don't be evil 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Structural evil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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