'Evil - adj. The antithesis of GOOD. Now little used except in literary English.
I. Bad in a positive sense.
1. Morally depraved. Obsolete as applied to persons'
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY
This week, Michael Ignatieff and his guests
Tim Dean , Editor, Third Way magazine
Adam Kuper , anthropologist Fay Weldon , author Bernard Williams , philosopher anatomise the idea of evil: is it obsolete or absolute?
Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol