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1 online resource (401 pages) |
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Ser |
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Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical accounts of evil; Thinking about evil -- the recent secular approach; The purpose and structure of the Handbook; Notes; References; PART I: Historical explorations of evil; Chapter 1: Plato on evil; Metaphysics: evil and the structure of the universe; Evil in politics: civil strife and tyranny; The education of desire: morality, virtue and vice; Notes; References; Chapter 2: Augustine on evil; A two-sided view; Evil as corruption in good things |
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Moral evil as disordered loveSin and grace; Providence and evil; The controversial Augustine; Notes; References; For Further Reading; Chapter 3: Aquinas on evil; The ontology and types of evil; The causes of evil; Evil and God; Objections and replies; Notes; References; Chapter 4: Machiavelli: The drama of politics and its inherent evil; Machiavelli's world; Evil in politics: corruption, which generates tyranny; Machiavelli's man; How to remain a good man while doing evil deeds; Conclusion: the redeeming element in politics; Notes; References; Chapter 5: Hobbes on evil |
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Evil in moral philosophySin and temporal obligations; Sin and spiritual obligations; Free will, moral evil, and God's omnipotence; Conclusion; Abbreviations of cited works of Hobbes; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Leibniz on evil: God's justice in the best of all possible worlds; Introduction; The nature of evil and its different kinds; God's intellect as the root of the possibility of evil; God's election of the best and the permission of evil; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the origin and nature of evil; Rousseau's theodicy; Rousseau's conception of evil |
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Rousseau's genealogy of evilOvercoming evil; Rousseau and our problem with evil; Notes; References; Chapter 8: Kant: The evil in all of us; Kant's criticism of the distinction between natural and moral evil; Evil actions and evil persons; Radical evil; Stages of evil and predispositions to the good; Kant's exclusion of the diabolical will; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Sade: Mushroom clouds and silver linings; Adieu, mon dieu: a black theodicy; When nature calls: hedonism to the hilt; Sade beyond sadism; From pathology to principle; Fiction as reality's rape; Notes; References |
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Chapter 10: Nietzsche's critique of morality and his effort to create an evaluation "beyond good and evil"Introduction; Good and evil are interpretations, not realities; Diagnosis of the moral interpretation; A different interpretation; Critique; An alternative ideal and the trouble of realizing it; Conclusion; Notes; References; Other references; Chapter 11: Hannah Arendt's double account of evil: Political superfluousness and moral thoughtlessness; Radical evil and the systematic production of superfluousness; Eichmann and the thoughtless banality of evil; Notes; References |
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Chapter 12: After the fall: Camus on evil |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Wijze, Stephen De
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| ISBN |
9781317394419 |
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1317394410 |
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