Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition / / Gavin Rae.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Rae, Gavin,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; PART I Theological Foundations --; 1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil --; 2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil --; 3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin --; 4. Descartes and the Evil of Error --; 5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good --; PART II From Autonomous Reason to History --; 6. Kant on Radical Evil --; 7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil --; 8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil --; PART III Socialisation and Psychoanalysis --; 9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal --; 10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil --; 11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary --; PART IV The Subjects of Evil --; 12. The Perpetrators of Evil --; 13. Remembering the Victims --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474445344; 9783110780420
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474445344?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Gavin Rae.

Analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contestedQuestions any straightforward secular–theology dichotomy by showing that theological motifs, idea, and figures continue to implicitly influence so-called ‘secular’ thinking on evilDemonstrates the breadth and depth of thinking on evil by looking at thinkers not normally included in this analysis, such as Jacques Lacan and Cornelius CastoriadisRelevant to those working in political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and the history of philosophyCharting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil – as a conceptual problem – came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation. "