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Rethinking Evil
Contemporary Perspectives
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María Pía Lara
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2001
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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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Lara María Pía :
María Pía Lara is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa, Mexico.
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives
1 - Part One: A Critical Review of Evil
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1. Is God Evil? Isabel Cabrera
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2. What’s the Problem of Evil?
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3. “Radical Finitude” and the Problem of Evil: Critical Comments on Wellmer’s Reading of Jonas
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4. Radical Evil: Kant at War with Himself
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5. Reflections on the Banality of (Radical) Evil: A Kantian Analysis
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6. The Polyhedron of Evil
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7. An Evil Heart: Moral Evil and Moral Identity
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8. Understanding Evil: Arendt and the Final Solution
131 - Part Three: Postmetaphysical Approaches for a Theory of Evil
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9. Toward a Sociology of Evil: Getting beyond Modernist Common Sense about the Alternative to “the Good”
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10. The Evil That Men Do: A Meditation on Radical Evil from a Postmetaphysical Point of View
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11. Major Offenders, Minor Offenders
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12. On Pain, the Suffering of Wrong, and Other Grievances: Responsibility
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13. Forgiveness and Oblivion: A New Form of Banality of Evil?
210 - Part Four: Narratives of Evil
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14. “Happy Endings”/Unendings: Narratives of Evil
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15. Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
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Notes
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List of Contributors
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Index
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November 30, 2001
eBook ISBN:
9780520935556
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Keywords for this book
evil in postmetaphysical world; examination of evil; how and why god permits evil; problem of evil; why humans perform evil acts; moral and political philosophers; social scientists; war; genocide; ethnic cleansing; desire to harm one another; natural and human evil; omnipotent god; provocative; innovative; thought provoking
