Wickedness
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Routledge classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780203380451
Subjects: Good and evil
Description: To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface to the Routledge Classics edition; Preface; The Problem of Natural Evil; Intelligibility and Immoralism; The Elusiveness of Responsibility; Understanding Aggression; Fates, Causes and Free-will; Selves and Shadows; The Instigators; Death-wish; Evil in Evolution; Notes; Index.