Evil in Modern Thought : : An Alternative History of Philosophy / / Susan Neiman.
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 of evil from the Inqui...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Classics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One. FIRE FROM HEAVEN
- Chapter Two. CONDEMNING THE ARCHITECT
- Chapter Three. ENDS OF AN ILLUSION
- Chapter Four. HOMELESS
- Afterword to the Princeton classics edition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index