A philosophy of evil
By: Lars Svendsen ; translated by Kerri A. Pierce
Edition: 1st English translation
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Champaign, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781564785718
Work titles: Ondskapens filosofi
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-306).
Table of contents: title: What is evil and how can we understand it?; title: The theology of evil; title: Theodicies; title: The privation theodicy; title: The free will theodicy; title: The Iraenean theodicy; title: The totality theodicy; title: History as secular theodicy; title: Job's insight-the theodicy of the hereafter; title: Anthropology of evil; title: Are people good or evil?; title: The typologies of evil; title: Demonic evil; title: Evil for evil's sake; title: Evil's aesthetic seduction; title: Sadism; title: Schadenfreude; title: Subjective and objective evil; title: Kant and instrumental evil; title: The impossibility of a "devilish" will; title: The paradox of evil; title: Moral rebirth; title: The evil is the other-idealistic evil; title: "Us" vs. "them"; title: Violent individuals; title: Arendt and stupid evil; title: The evil and the stupid; title: Radical and banal evil; title: Eichmann, Hoss, and Stangl; title: Normal people and extreme evil; title: Thinking as opposition; title: Evil people; title: The problem of evil; title: Theory and praxis; title: Ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility; title: Politics and violence; title: Evil as a concrete problem.