| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 307 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : Contemporary perspectives / María Pía Lara -- Is God evil? / Isabel Cabrera -- What's the problem of evil? / Susan Neiman -- "Radical finitude" and the problem of evil : critical comments on Wellmer's reading of Jonas / Peter Dews -- Radical evil : Kant at war with himself / Richard J. Bernstein -- Reflections on the banality of (radical) evil : a Kantian analysis / Henry E. Allison -- The polyhedron of evil / Gustavo Leyva -- An evil heart : moral evil and moral identity / Maeve Cooke -- Understanding evil : Arendt and the final solution / Robert Fine -- Toward a sociology of evil : getting beyond modernist common sense about the alternative to "the good" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The evil that men do : a meditation on radical evil from a postmetaphysical point of view / Alessandro Ferrara -- Major offenders, minor offenders / Sergio Pérez -- On pain, the suffering of wrong, and other grievances : responsibility / Manuel Cruz -- Forgiveness and oblivion : a new form of banality of evil? / Carlos Pereda -- "Happy endings"/unendings : narratives of evil / Carol L. Bernstein -- Narrating evil : a postmetaphysical theory of reflective judgment / María Pía Lara |
| Summary |
This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. María Pía Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a "postmetaphysical" world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The question of how and why God permits evil events to occur is replaced by the question of how and why humans perform radically evil acts |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-293) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Good and evil
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PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Good and evil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lara, María Pía
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| ISBN |
9780520935556 |
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0520935551 |
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1417522836 |
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9781417522835 |
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9780520226326 |
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0520226321 |
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9780520226340 |
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0520226348 |
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1597348643 |
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9781597348645 |
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