The many faces of evil historical perspectives / edited by Amélie Oksenberg Rorty.

Other author Rorty, Amélie.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
Descriptionxviii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
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Contents pt. 1. From disobedience to disorder : The ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead: The soul meets its judges ; The Book of Genesis/The Book of Exodus: Divine prohibitions ; Thucydides: War and revolution ; Theophrastus:Grotesque shamelessness ; Seneca: Anger as social disruption ; Gnostics: The war between darkness and light -- pt. 2. From sin to vice : St. Augustine: The discoveries of guilt and divine benevolence ; Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: There is no evil in Allah's perfect world ; Peter Abelard: Sin moves inward ; Moses Maimonides: Divine rationality and moral character ; Pope Innocent III: On the misery of the human condition ; St Thomas Aquinas: On evil ; Dante Alighieri: The suffering of the damned ; Geoffrey Chaucer: The seven deadly sins -- pt. 3. Evil as willfulness : Martin Luther: Flesh against spirit ; John Calvin: Human corruption ; John Milton: The voice of Satan ; Jonathan Edwards: Sinners in the hand of an angry God -- pt. 4. The cruel face of justice : Niccolò Machiavelli: A prince's virtue, timely ruthlessness ; Thomas Hobbes: The natural condition of mankind, every man is enemy to every man ; Samuel Butler: Varieties of malice and corruption -- pt. 5. The irrationality of waywardness : G.W. von Leibniz: The justice of God and the problem of evil ; Bernard Mandeville: Private vice, public benefits ; Voltaire: Conscience and original sin ; J.-J. Rousseau: Social corruption ; Immanuel Kant: The rational will overcomes base inclinations -- pt. 6. The romanticism of evil : Marquis de Sade: Murdering nature ; J.W. von Goethe: Mephistopheles speaks ; William Blake: Shame is pride's cloak ; Nathaniel Hawthorne: Dreams of evil ; Charles Baudelaire: The sweetness of evil ; Arthur Schopenhauer: On the vanity and suffering of life ; Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond good and evil -- pt. 7. The banality of evil: the cruelty of everyday life : Fyodor Dostoevsky: Ivan speaks of human cruelty ; Friedrich Engels: Barbarous indifference ; Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud: Why are there wars? ; Hannah Arendt: The banality of evil, failing to think ; Michael Stocker: On desiring the bad ; Amélie Rorty: How to harden your heart, six easy ways to become corrupt ; Amos Oz: On degrees of evil -- pt. 8. Conflict, immorality and crime : G.E.M. Anscombe: War and murder ; Michael Walzer: Political action, the problem of dirty hands ; Jean Hampton: The nature of immorality ; The model penal code: Criminality ; Diagnostic statistical manual IV: Sociopathology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 340-346).
Genre/formAufsatzsammlung.
Genre/formLiterary collections.
LCCN 00067067
ISBN0415242061
ISBN9780415242066
ISBN041524207X (pbk.)
ISBN9780415242073 (pbk.)

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