Cargando…

Destined for evil? : the twentieth-century responses /

This collection of 15 essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines [philosophy, theology, literary criticism, political science, etc]. This collection brings together a variety of responses to the ancient questions of wh...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cicovacki, Predrag
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Colección:Rochester studies in philosophy ; 9.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Historical perspectives on evil. Two thousand years and no new God / Gil Bailie
  • Identifying good and evil / Nicholas Wolsterstorff
  • Kant and radical evil / Emil L. Fackenheim
  • Uprooting evil and the building of ethical communities / Sharon Anderson-Gold
  • The realty of radical evil / Jeffrey B. Russell
  • Roads to hell / Susan Neiman
  • pt. 2. Confronting evil in our divided world: on genocide, self-destruction, and war. The banality of evil: failing to think / Hannah Arendt
  • Ordinary people and extraordinary vices / Tzvetan Todorov
  • Are wars inevitable? / Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud
  • From relative to absolute evil / Svetozar Stojanović
  • Killing in Vietnam: what have we done to our soldiers? / Dave Grossman
  • Thou shalt not kill / Hermann Hess
  • pt. 3. Facing the darkness within: on our spiritual crisis. Searching for self-knowledge and divine wholeness / Carl Gustav Jung
  • Love and cruelty: a blue spot in the middle of the hurricane / Philip Paul Hallie
  • Goodness at the heart of being / Michael Lerner
  • We are prodigals in a distant land: an essay on Thomas Merton / John P. Collins
  • Recovering paradise: Thomas Merton on the self and problem of evil / Thomas Del Prete
  • Exposing the deceitful heart: a monk's public "inner work" / Jonathan Montaldo
  • pt. 4. Portrayals of evil in art. Lamentations and losses: from New York to Kabul / Daniel Berrigan
  • Evil as mystery: primal speech and contemporary poetry / Michael True
  • The trial of man and the trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor / Predrag Cicovacki
  • The resurrection of hell / Leo Tolstoy
  • The Gulag Archipelago (a fragment) / Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  • Helen's exile / Albert Camus.