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Evil in contemporary political theory /

What role should the idea of evil have in contemporary moral and social thought?. The concept of 'evil' has long been a key idea in moral discourse. Now, the contributors to this volume make a start on the important task of systematically exploring evil in the context of political theory....

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Haddock, B. A., Roberts, Peri, Sutch, Peter, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Bruce Haddock, Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch
  • Darkness and silence: evil and the Western legacy / John Milbank
  • Constructivism and evil / Peri Roberts
  • Systemic evil and the limits of pluralism / Bruce Haddock
  • Unreasonable or evil? / Kerstin Budde
  • Evil in contemporary international political theory: acts that shock the conscience of mankind / Peter Sutch
  • Doing evil justly? The morality of justifiable abomination / Mark Evans
  • Evil and the Left / Eve Garrard
  • The glamour of evil: Dostoyesvsky and the politics of transgression / John Horton
  • The rhetoric of moral equivalence / Richard Shorten
  • Banal but not benign: Arendt on evil / David Boucher.