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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Collaborateurs: Nys, Thomas (Éditeur intellectuel)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge 2019
Dans:Année: 2019
Collection/Revue:Routledge handbooks in philosophy
Sujets non-standardisés:B PHILOSOPHY / General ; bisacsh
B PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
B Social / PHILOSOPHY
B Electronic books
B Généraux / PHILOSOPHY
B Good and evil
B PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy ; bisacsh
B PHILOSOPHY / Social ; bisacsh
Accès en ligne: Volltext (doi)
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Édition parallèle:Erscheint auch als: 1138931799
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Résumé: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.
ISBN:1317394410
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4324/9781315679518