Rethinking evil : contemporary perspectives /
This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. Maria Pia Lara brings t...
| Други автори: | Lara, Maria Pia. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
℗♭2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=108524 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Rethinking evil. |
| Резюме: |
This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. Maria Pia Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a "postmetaphysical" world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The question of how and why God permits evil events to occur is replaced by the question of how and why humans perform radically evil acts. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (vii, 307 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-293) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780520935556 0520935551 1417522836 9781417522835 9780520226326 0520226321 |