Evil in the Western philosophical tradition

Evil in the Western philosophical tradition

by Rae, Gavin

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Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analyticphilosophy and secularisation.

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Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analyticphilosophy and secularisation.

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  • Publication Date:©2019

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  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (viii, 346 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:1474445322, 9781474445320, 9781474445344, 1474445349
  • oclc:on1149415313
  • LC Classification:BJ1401
  • Dewey Decimal:170

Table of Contents

Part I Theological foundations: 1. The rise of the problem of evil -- 2. Augustine, free will, and evil -- 3. Aquinas, privation, and original sin -- 4. Descartes and the evil of error -- 5. Leibniz and theodicy: evil as the good -- Part II From autonomous reason to history: 6. Kant on radical evil -- 7. Schelling and the metaphysics of evil -- 8. Nietzsche and the genealogy of evil -- Part III Socialisation and psychoanalysis: 9. Arendt on evil: from the radical to the banal -- 10. Lacan and the symbolic function of evil -- Castoriadis:evil and the social imaginary -- Part IV The subjectos of evil: 12.The perpetrators of evil -- 13. Remembering the jvictims.

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e-books Good and evil -- Philosophy Livres numériques

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Rae, Gavin

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