Two major tragic events shaped the Western mind's perception towards evil. While evil is classically divided into natural evils and moral evils when discussing the problem of evil, [[Susan Neiman]] argues that is a historical development that came as reactions towards those two major events. The two major tragic events were: 1. Lisbon Earthquake 1755 2. Auschwitz Concentration Camps 1940s Susan goes on to argue that the problem of evil is a problem one meets with such force and urgency, as compared to purely metaphysical or epistemological problems, that these two events and the problem of evil that it probes is the driving force and the connecting thread for philosophy at least since the early modern period.[^1] [^1]: Susan Neiman, *[[Evil in Modern Thought]]*, Introduction.