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Evil in Modern Thought : An Alternative History of Philosophy /
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inqui...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: FIRE FROM HEAVEN; God's Advocates: Leibniz and Pope; Newton of the Mind: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Divided Wisdom: lmmanuel Kant; Real and Rational: Hegel and Marx; In Conclusion; CHAPTER TWO: CONDEMNING THE ARCHITECT; Raw Material: Bayle's Dictionary; Voltaire's Destinies; The Impotence of Reason: David Hume; End of the Tunnel: The Marquis de Sade; Schopenhauer: The World as Tribunal; CHAPTER THREE: ENDS OF AN ILLUSION; Eternal Choices: Nietzsche on Redemption.
- On Consolation: Freud vs. ProvidenceCHAPTER FOUR: HOMELESS; Earthquakes: Why Lisbon?; Mass Murders: Why Auschwitz?; Losses: Ending Modern Theodicies; Intentions: Meaning and Malice; Terror: After September 11; Remains: Camus, Arendt, Critical Theory, Rawls; Origins: Sufficient Reason; Afterword to the Princeton Classics Edition; Notes; Bibliography; Index.