I .listened to Dr.(?) Livingston's presentation on evil for about seven minutes. That was long enough for me to say to myself: oh, this is not new. And: oh, this is not philosophical. Not so much anyway. But, the lines of symmetry between philosophy and the newer red-headed stepchild, psychology, appear to be blurred. Perhaps we must have it both ways---perhaps we MUST recognize, as Wilber has often said: the isness or suchness of it all. But, must we? Ernst Becker wrote of an Escape From Evil, and, The Denial of Death. There was another tome from Herr Becker I enjoyed---the title escapes me now. There have been dozens of theorists who have tried to explain the evil that men do. I am still working on that---and still believe it has to do with my own notion of historionicity: we get what we deserve; or, in a more modern vernacular: if you always do what you have always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
Finally, the quintessential rock band said: You can't always get what you want... and I said, thirty years later: you don't always want what you get. IF we are lucky enough to get what we need, well, that's just gravy.