MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01910nam a22002418a 4500
001 2007017044
003 DLC
005 20070502160758.0
008 070424s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2007017044
020 $a9780773454149
020 $a0773454144
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aBJ1406$b.F36 2007
082 00 $a170$222
100 1 $aFanning, Bryan.
245 10 $aEvil, God, the greater good, and rights :$bthe philosophical origins of social problems /$cBryan Fanning ; with a preface by Timothy Mooney.
260 $aLewiston, N.Y. :$bEdwin Mellen Press,$c2007.
263 $a0707
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aAugustine and 'tough love' -- The problem of evil -- Original sin and free will -- A tale of two cities -- Justice and the moral community -- Predestination and individualism -- Love and welfare -- Aquinas versus modernity -- Introduction -- Aristotle and Aquinas -- Aquinas and natural law -- Faith, free will and coercion -- Catholic anti-modernism -- Faith, doctrine and the material world -- Faith and social justice -- Aquinas and modernity -- Witch trials and bureaucracies -- The metaphysics of prejudice -- Heresies and orthodoxies -- Rationality and its discontents -- Show trials and autonomy -- Kingdoms of ends -- Justice in a kingdom of ends -- Liberty against the counsels of perfection -- An anthropomorphic greater good -- Metaphysics of the market -- Democratising the kingdom of ends -- Believing in rights -- From natural slavery to natural rights -- From natural rights to the rights of man -- Legal positivism -- Rules vs. principles -- The fragility of human rights -- Nietzsche, pragmatism and belonging -- The lonely passion of Friedrich Nietzsche -- Dionysos vs. the crucified -- Nietzsche and pragmatism -- Ontology and intolerance -- Metaphysics and belonging.
650 0 $aGood and evil.