Why evil exists
By: Charles Mathewes
Series: The great courses. Religion & theology. Judeo-Christianity
Publisher: Great Courses
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chantilly, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Good and evil; Religious aspects; History
Description: Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil.
Notes: Lecturer: Professor Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia.

Course guidebook to accompany lecture 6810.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-162)
Table of contents: title: Lecture 1. The nature and origins of evil; title: Lecture 2. Enuma elish : evil as cosmic battle; title: Lecture 3. Greece : tragedy and The Peloponnesian War; title: Lecture 4.  Greek philosophy : human evil and malice; title: Lecture 5. The Hebrew Bible : human rivalry with God; title: Lecture 6. The Hebrew Bible : wisdom and the fear of God; title: Lecture 7. Christian scripture : apocalypse and original sin; title: Lecture 8. The inevitability of evil : Irenaeus; title: Lecture 9. Creation, evil, and the fall : Augustine; title: Lecture 10. Rabbinic Judaism : the evil impulse; title: Lecture 11. Islam : Iblis the failed, once-glorious being; title: Lecture 12. On self-deception in evil : scholasticism; title: Lecture 13. Dante : Hell and the abandonment of hope; title: Lecture 14. The Reformation : the power of evil within; title: Lecture 15. Dark politics : Machiavelli on how to be bad; title: Lecture 16. Hobbes : evil as a social construct; title: Lecture 17.; title: Montaigne and Pascal : evil and the self; title: Lecture 18; title: Milton : epic evil; title: Lecture 19. The Enlightenment and its discontents; title: Lecture 20. Kant : evil at the root of human agency; title: Lecture 21. Hegel : the slaughter block of history; title: Lecture 22. Marx : materialism and evil; title: Lecture 23. The American north and south : holy war; title: Lecture 24. Nietzsche : considering the language of evil; title: Lecture 25. Dostoevsky : the demonic in modernity; title: Lecture 26. Conrad : incomprehensible terror; title: Lecture 27. Freud : the death drive and the inexplicable; title: Lecture 28. Camus : the challenge to take evil seriously; title: Lecture 29. Post-WWII Protestant theology on evil; title: Lecture 30. Post-WWII Roman Catholic theology on evil; title: Lecture 31. 16. Post-WWII Jewish thought on evil; title: Lecture 32. Arendt : the banality of evil; title: Lecture 33. Life in truth : 20th-century poets on evil; title: Lecture 34. Science and the empirical study of evil; title: Lecture 35. The "unnaming" of evil; title: Lecture 36. Where can hope be found?