What is evil? If it is ultimately a mystery of human existence, then how do we describe things as ‘evil?’ Paul Ricœur and René Girard reveal, via their differing methodological approaches, a historical progression of the understanding of evil, which begins in foundational myths of primitive religion and continues through the major texts of Western Civilization.1 This progression of understanding, through the interpretation of symbols, which serve as the traces of unconscious violence behind these texts, necessarily includes a response to what will be shown as humanity’s ‘fallen’ or evil existential situation. What common understanding on the question of evil could be achieved when these interpretations and methodologies are placed in dialogue? From where does this common understanding arise? Could the dialogue between Ricœur and Girard be further developed and adapted into a synthesized hermeneutic method for interpreting humanity’s situation of evil?