Dimensions of evil
Subtitle: contemporary perspectives
By: edited by Terry D. Cooper.
Contributors: Cooper, Terry D.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780800662172
Subjects: Good and evil; Human behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evil and evolution : Darwin and the brutalities of nature; title: Natural history without religion; title: The voyage and the emerging conviction of natural selection; title: Nature's cruelty : philosophical and religious implications; title: Darwin's struggle with theodicy; title: Does evolution necessitate atheism?; title: Evolution as religion : Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath; title: Evolution and the God of classical metaphysics; title: Providence and purpose after Darwin; title: Metaphysical impatience and emerging purpose; title: Evil, ethics, and evolutionary psychology; title: Evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and darwinian anthropology; title: Darwin and ethics; title: From Darwin to evolutionary psychology; title: The controversial issue of altruism; title: Aggression and reproductive competition; title: Evolutionary psychology and religion; title: Determinism and transcendence : the central problem; title: Original sin and evolutionary psychology; title: Evil and the psychoanalytic tradition; title: Freud's gradual turn to the death instinct; title: Freud, evil, and religion; title: Tillich, Niebuhr, and Freud; title: Erich Fromm and human destructiveness; title: "Life lovers" and "death lovers"; title: Fromm's syndrome of decay; title: Fromm and Tillich on estrangement and healing; title: Ernest Becker : evil and the denial of death; title: Fear of death and evil; title: Does Becker exaggerate our narcissism?; title: Human potential and human destructiveness : the psychology of hate; title: Threat, anxiety, and reactive thinking; title: The role of egocentricity; title: Reactive offenders and psychopaths; title: Mental distortion and enemy making; title: The other side of hate; title: Hate and the shadow; title: Jesus, Paul, and the shadow; title: The Jekyll and Hyde story; title: Varieties and transformations of hate; title: Reasons for hate; title: The first experience of hate; title: Hatred, absolutes, and the "evil imagination"; title: Purifying our hatred; title: Evaluating these three theories of hate; title: Ordinary people and malevolent circumstances : the social context of evil; title: Destructive obedience; title: How much do social-psychology experiments tell us about evil?; title: The breakdown of self-regulation; title: Social critiques of excessive individualism; title: Individual and sytemic evil : should one be privileged over the other?; title: Sin reaffirmed : Langdon Gilkey and Shantung compound; title: Niebuhr, anxiety, and sin; title: Pride and self-obsession; title: From the anxious individual to the corrupt system; title: Original violence : Marjorie Suchocki's objection to Niebuhr; title: The shift from the individual to the social in pastoral care; title: A niebuhrian response to feminist and liberation charges.