The Routledge handbook of the philosophy of evil
Introduction -- PART I: Historical explorations of evil -- Plato on evil -- Augustine on evil -- Aquinas on evil -- Machiavelli: the drama of politics and its inherent evil -- Hobbes on evil -- Leibniz on evil: God's justice in the best of all possible worlds -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the ori...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY
Routledge
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge handbooks in philosophy
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| Further subjects: | B
PHILOSOPHY / General ; bisacsh
B PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy B Social / PHILOSOPHY B Electronic books B Good and evil B PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy ; bisacsh B PHILOSOPHY / Generals B PHILOSOPHY / Social ; bisacsh |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 1138931799 |
| Summary: | Introduction -- PART I: Historical explorations of evil -- Plato on evil -- Augustine on evil -- Aquinas on evil -- Machiavelli: the drama of politics and its inherent evil -- Hobbes on evil -- Leibniz on evil: God's justice in the best of all possible worlds -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the origin and nature of evil -- Kant: the evil in all of us -- Sade: mushroom clouds and silver linings -- Nietzsche's critique of morality and his effort to create an evaluation beyond good and evil -- Hannah Arendt's double account of evil: political superfluousness and moral thoughtlessness -- After the fall: Camus on evil -- PART II: Recent secular explorations of evil -- Deliver us from evil: the case for skepticism -- Does the term evil have any explanatory power? -- Defining the concept of evil: insights from our pre-cognitive responses -- Evil and wrongdoing -- Evil characters -- Defining evil actions: different approaches -- Different substantive conceptions of evil actions -- PART III: Evil and other issues -- Evil and punishment -- Evil and foregiveness -- Evil and freedom -- Evil and power -- Evil and childhood -- Evil's diachronic characteristics -- Evil, genocide, and mass atrocities -- Evil: a comparative overview -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1317394410 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.4324/9781315679518 |