Describes the characteristics and neurological bases of disorders that "evil" people commonly have, discussing the personalities of figures such as Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong and examining the malevolent behaviors of the author's sister
Describes the characteristics and neurological bases of disorders that "evil" people commonly have, discussing the personalities of figures such as Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong and examining the malevolent behaviors of the author's sister.
Describes the characteristics and neurological bases of disorders that "evil" people commonly have, discussing the personalities of figures such as Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong and examining the malevolent behaviors of the author's sister.
An erudite and compelling intellectual treatise that is profoundly interesting, often witty, and constructed without resorting to jargon or obfuscation. ... In reorienting the history of philosophy, she has made it come alive. ... This is a fine, even elegant book.--Choice"Neima…
"Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding …
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding o…
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowe…
''An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allo…
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us todayIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allowe…
"An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on the question of how God could have allo…
