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.
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"In an environment in which philosophy increasingly shies away from the big questions, this volume takes them on in a conscientious, analytical, and enlightening way. For Lara, the problem is not just that human beings suffer but that other human beings intentionally want to make them suffer, and to suffer in such extreme ways that the explanations offered by natural and social science seem as insufficient as those offered by older theodicies. The volume makes for engrossing reading; it sheds new light on an age-old issue." - Georgia Warnke, author of Legitimate Differences "An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion." - David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory.
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"In an environment in which philosophy increasingly shies away from the big questions, this volume takes them on in a conscientious, analytical, and enlightening way. For Lara, the problem is not just that human beings suffer but that other human beings intentionally want to make them suffer, and to suffer in such extreme ways that the explanations offered by natural and social science seem as insufficient as those offered by older theodicies. The volume makes for engrossing reading; it sheds new light on an age-old issue."--Georgia Warnke, author of Legitimate Differences
"An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion."--David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory
"An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion."--David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory
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If we ask a believer in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition if God is evil, he would most likely answer: "No, on the contrary, God is good, infinitely good." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmetaphysical theory, conceptualize evil, evil maxims, reflective authenticity, malignant reason, ultimate subjective ground, nonmoral incentives, abstract hatred, perverted ill, devilish beings, supreme maxim, exemplary validity, radical evil, ordinary evil, radical finitude, totalitarian terror, postmetaphysical thinking, original predisposition, moral propensity, diabolical evil, abstract love, good maxims, freedom whereby, major offenders, sensuous nature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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If we ask a believer in the Judeo-Christian religious tradition if God is evil, he would most likely answer: "No, on the contrary, God is good, infinitely good." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmetaphysical theory, conceptualize evil, evil maxims, reflective authenticity, malignant reason, ultimate subjective ground, nonmoral incentives, abstract hatred, perverted ill, devilish beings, supreme maxim, exemplary validity, radical evil, ordinary evil, radical finitude, totalitarian terror, postmetaphysical thinking, original predisposition, moral propensity, diabolical evil, abstract love, good maxims, freedom whereby, major offenders, sensuous nature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hannah Arendt, Limits of Reason Alone, World War, Critique of Practical Reason, Final Solution, Adolf Eichmann, Latin America, Allen Wood, Book of Job, Critical Philosophy, Third Reich, Martha Nussbaum, Max Weber New!
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- Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Torchbooks) by Immanuel Kant on 14 pages
- The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt on 13 pages
- Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant on 7 pages
- The Critique Of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant on 7 pages
- Essays in Understanding by Hannah Arendt on 6 pages
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- After Evil: Responding to Wrongdoing by Geoffrey Scarre on page 174, and Back Matter
- The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology by Jeffrey C. Alexander in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Human Rights in the 'War on Terror' by Richard Ashby Wilson on page 77
- Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil by Paul W. Kahn on page 59
- Terrorism and International Justice by James P. Sterba on page 184
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