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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Facing Evil / John Kekes.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Works Cited -- Index
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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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In English.
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Character.
Good and evil.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh
Aristotle.
Barry, Brian.
Brown, James.
Enlightenment.
Feinberg, Joel.
Frankena, William.
Gert, Bernard.
Hampshire, Stuart.
Kant, Immanuel.
Kurtz (character).
Nussbaum, Martha.
Plato.
Rawls, John.
Socratic ideal.
action.
character.
character-morality.
contingency.
control.
desert.
destructiveness.
egalitarianism.
expediency.
good life.
hard reaction.
human nature.
indifference.
insufficiency.
malevolence.
moral merit.
morality.
our sensibility.
reflective temper.
tragic situations.
vices.
vulnerability.
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Facing Evil /
Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Chapter One --
Chapter Two --
Chapter Three --
Chapter Four --
Chapter Five --
Chapter Six --
Chapter Seven --
Chapter Eight --
Chapter Nine --
Chapter Ten --
Chapter Eleven --
Chapter Twelve --
Works Cited --
Index
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Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Chapter One --
Chapter Two --
Chapter Three --
Chapter Four --
Chapter Five --
Chapter Six --
Chapter Seven --
Chapter Eight --
Chapter Nine --
Chapter Ten --
Chapter Eleven --
Chapter Twelve --
Works Cited --
Index
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Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Chapter One --
Chapter Two --
Chapter Three --
Chapter Four --
Chapter Five --
Chapter Six --
Chapter Seven --
Chapter Eight --
Chapter Nine --
Chapter Ten --
Chapter Eleven --
Chapter Twelve --
Works Cited --
Index
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