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The Many Faces of Evil Amelie Rorty

The Many Faces of Evil By Amelie Rorty

The Many Faces of Evil by Amelie Rorty


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Summary

The first anthology to present the range of the forms of evil, from vice, sin, cruelty and crime to disobedience and wilfulness. The readings are drawn from an array of perspectives and each one is introduced and set in context by the author.

The Many Faces of Evil Summary

The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives by Amelie Rorty

First reader to draw together key readings on evil

The problem of evil is a core topic within philosophy and religion courses

Evil is a strong topic that will also attract strong trade interest

Very useful addition to our growing stable of primary philosophy sources

Amelie Rorty is well-known as an anthologist

Main market is philosophy; ethics and moral philosophy courses; moral psychology and religion. There will be strong interest from comparative literature courses and social philosophy and sociology

About Amelie Rorty

Amelie Rorty

Table of Contents

1. From Disobedience to Disorder Includes readings: The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Old Testament, Thucydides, Seneca, Hans Jonas, Gershon Scholem
2. From Sin to ViceSt Augustine, Abu Hamid Al-Ghazli, Peter Abelard, Moses Maimonides, Pope Innocent III, Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer
3. Evil as WilfullnessLuther, Calvin, Milton, Jonathan Edwards
4. Containing LawlessnessMachiavelli, Hobbes, Butler
5. The Irrationality of WaywardnessLeibniz, Manderille, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant
6. The Romanticism of EvilGoethe, Blake, Hawthorne, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche
7. The Banality of Evil: The Cruelty of Everday LifeDostoyevsky, Engels, Einstein, Freud, Hannah Arendt, Michael Stocker, Amelie Rorty, Amos Oz
8. Conflict, Immorality and Crime 'War and Murder', Elizabeth Anscombe; 'Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands', Michael Walzer; 'The Nature of Immortality', Jean Hampton

Additional information

NPB9780415242066
9780415242066
0415242061
The Many Faces of Evil: Historical Perspectives by Amelie Rorty
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2001-05-24
364
N/A
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