"Jewish anthropological beliefs during the Hellenistic-Roman period are an important but previously neglected area of biblical exegesis and Jewish studies. In an effort to address this deficiency, this volume brings together 20 essays related to the subject of sin and death, wit…
Series statement from cataloging data on t.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-402) and indexes.
Series statement from cataloging data on t.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-402) and indexes.
Ethics of evil: pyschoanalytic investigations
Rethinking goodness
by Wallach, Michael A., Wallach, Lise
fromSUNY series in ethical theory
Rethinking goodness
by Wallach, Michael A., Wallach, Lise
fromSUNY series in ethical theory
Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil. Freud saw it as a direct expression of unconscious forces, whereas more recent theorists have examined the links between early traumatic experiences and later 'evil' behaviour. Humanizing Ev…
"No one will deny that we live in a world where evil exists. But how are we to come to grips with human atrocity and its diabolical intensity? Martin Beck Matustik considers evil to be even more radically evil than previously thought and to have become all too familiar in everyd…
This book is a concise philosophical meditation on Iago and the nature of evil, through the exploration of the enduring puzzle found in Shakespeare's Othello. What drives Iago to orchestrate Othello's downfall? Instead of treating Iago's lack of motive as the play's greatest wea…
As long as we care about suffering in the world we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. but is the concept of evil still useful in a post-modern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given our current unwi…