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001 2009050785
003 DLC
005 20120719103810.0
008 091215s2010 ilu b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2009050785
020 $a9781564785718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hnor
050 00 $aBJ1405.N67$bS8413 2010
082 00 $a170$222
100 1 $aSvendsen, Lars Fr. H.,$d1970-
240 10 $aOndskapens filosofi.$lEnglish
245 12 $aA philosophy of evil /$cLars Svendsen ; translated by Kerri A. Pierce.
250 $a1st English translation
260 $aChampaign, IL :$bDalkey Archive Press,$c2010.
300 $a306 p. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 235-306).
505 0 $aWhat is evil and how can we understand it? -- The theology of evil -- Theodicies -- The privation theodicy -- The free will theodicy -- The Iraenean theodicy -- The totality theodicy -- History as secular theodicy -- Job's insight-the theodicy of the hereafter -- Anthropology of evil -- Are people good or evil? -- The typologies of evil -- Demonic evil -- Evil for evil's sake -- Evil's aesthetic seduction -- Sadism -- Schadenfreude -- Subjective and objective evil -- Kant and instrumental evil -- The impossibility of a "devilish" will -- The paradox of evil -- Moral rebirth -- The evil is the other-idealistic evil -- "Us" vs. "them" -- Violent individuals -- Arendt and stupid evil -- The evil and the stupid -- Radical and banal evil -- Eichmann, Hoss, and Stangl -- Normal people and extreme evil -- Thinking as opposition -- Evil people -- The problem of evil -- Theory and praxis -- Ethics of conviction and ethics of responsibility -- Politics and violence -- Evil as a concrete problem.
650 0 $aGood and evil.