Vice-based accounts of moral evil

Abstract In this paper, I highlight three objections to vice-based accounts of moral evil: (1) the worry that evil are explanatorily inadequate; (2) even extreme vice is not sufficient for evil; and (3) all vices inversions virtue (and so will struggle explain “mirror thesis”). argue it possible respond these by developing a account draws on insights from vice) epistemology. way, seek defend strategy understanding in terms vice, provide guidance how best develop such an account. also briefly consider what might imply about other normative domains where common talk including possibilities epistemic aesthetic evil.