Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman
Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Susan Neiman

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

Susan Neiman

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Evil threatens reason. It challenges our hope that things make sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Now we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.Examining our understand...

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