The Psychology of Good and Evil

Good and evil… This opposition, which manifests itself in many fields from antiquity to the present, from art to literature, from philosophy to everyday language, is rarely on our agenda with its objective reality. The concepts of “good” and “bad” are often useful categories by which we evaluate our social relationships. Sometimes they are functional patterns that we refer to when making sense of life. It has been heard that in the promotional slogans of films, novels or other artistic fictions, existence is described as "the endless struggle of good and evil". However, the effort to understand the nature, causes and consequences of good and evil is located beyond all these. In the pursuit of this understanding effort, in the book in your hand, the phenomena of good and evil are examined from the point of view of psychology.
First of all, it is mentioned how good and evil are handled in philosophy, and in the second and third chapters, the phenomena of good and evil are discussed separately. In the following sections, goodness and evil are looked at from the developmental perspective, and then the relationship between religion and goodness and evil is examined from the perspective of social psychology studies. Thus, “What is goodness or what is goodness?”, “How does goodness arise?”, “What facilitates, increases, makes goodness visible?”, “What is evil or what is evil?”, “How can evil be reduced or prevented?” In response to questions such as, theoretical explanations and findings from psychology research are included. This book, in a nutshell, provides a scientific picture for anyone who strives to understand good and evil.