Facing Evil /

Facing Evil / / John Kekes.

Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Kekes, John,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1990
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction --   |t Chapter One --   |t Chapter Two --   |t Chapter Three --   |t Chapter Four --   |t Chapter Five --   |t Chapter Six --   |t Chapter Seven --   |t Chapter Eight --   |t Chapter Nine --   |t Chapter Ten --   |t Chapter Eleven --   |t Chapter Twelve --   |t Works Cited --   |t Index 
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520 |a Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by our character defects and that we can increase our control over the evil we cause by cultivating a reflective temper. 
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588 0 |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) 
650 0 |a Character. 
650 0 |a Good and evil. 
650 7 |a PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Aristotle. 
653 |a Barry, Brian. 
653 |a Brown, James. 
653 |a Enlightenment. 
653 |a Feinberg, Joel. 
653 |a Frankena, William. 
653 |a Gert, Bernard. 
653 |a Hampshire, Stuart. 
653 |a Kant, Immanuel. 
653 |a Kurtz (character). 
653 |a Nussbaum, Martha. 
653 |a Plato. 
653 |a Rawls, John. 
653 |a Socratic ideal. 
653 |a action. 
653 |a character. 
653 |a character-morality. 
653 |a contingency. 
653 |a control. 
653 |a desert. 
653 |a destructiveness. 
653 |a egalitarianism. 
653 |a expediency. 
653 |a good life. 
653 |a hard reaction. 
653 |a human nature. 
653 |a indifference. 
653 |a insufficiency. 
653 |a malevolence. 
653 |a moral merit. 
653 |a morality. 
653 |a our sensibility. 
653 |a reflective temper. 
653 |a tragic situations. 
653 |a vices. 
653 |a vulnerability. 
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