Good Evil category: 530 books
Everyday Evils
A psychoanalytic view of evil and morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Everyday Evils takes a psychoanalytic look at the evils committed by "ordinary" people in different contexts – from the Nazi concentration camps to Stockholm Syndrome to the atrocities publicized by Islamic State – and presents new perspectives on how such evil deeds come about as well...
by W. B. Yeats
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet who was one of the biggest contributors to the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1923, Yeats became the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. This edition of Ideas of Good and Evil includes a table of contents.
by Hannah Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
Each of the books that Hannah Arendt published in her lifetime was unique, and to this day each continues to provoke fresh thought and interpretations. This was never more true than for Eichmann in Jerusalem, her account of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, where she first used the phrase “the banality...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The concept of evil is one of the most powerful in our moral vocabulary, and is commonly used today in both religious and secular spheres to condemn ideas, people, their actions, and much else besides. Yet appeals to evil in public debate have often deepened existing conflicts, through corruption...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
An essay about truth and faith intertwining. The preface lays the matter out, notes the futility of delusion, and notes that these themes have been covered by the author in other essays. Chapter 1 shows that it is impossible to prove faith by experimentation or disprove it by logic. Chapter 2 points...
by Derek Edyvane
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The last decade has witnessed a growing perception of ethical crisis in public life. Circumstances of political uncertainty, fueled by the rise of international terror and global financial crisis, have placed the practice of civic virtue under severe strain. Our turbulent times have prompted many...
Law and Evil
Philosophy, Politics, Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Law and Evil opens, expands and deepens our understanding of the phenomenon of evil by addressing the theoretical relationship between this phenomenon and law. Hannah Arendt said 'the problem of evil will be the fundamental question of post-war intellectual life in Europe'. This statement is, unfortunately,...
Humanizing Evil
Psychoanalytic, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Psychoanalysis has traditionally had difficulty in accounting for the existence of evil. Freud saw it as a direct expression of unconscious forces, whereas more recent theorists have examined the links between early traumatic experiences and later ‘evil’ behaviour. Humanizing Evil: Psychoanalytic,...
The Problem of Evil
Selected Readings, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Of all the issues in the philosophy of religion, the problem of reconciling belief in God with evil in the world arguably commands more attention than any other. For over two decades, Michael L. Peterson’s The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings has been the most widely recognized and used anthology...
Living with the Devil
A Meditation on Good and Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Stephen Batchelor's seminal work on humanity's struggle between good and evil
In the national bestseller Living with the Devil, Batchelor traces the trajectory from the words of the Buddha and Christ, through the writings of Shantideva, Milton, and Pascal, to the poetry of Baudelaire, the fiction...
Evil: A Primer
A History of a Bad Idea from Beelzebub to Bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
"Today our nation saw evil." - President George W. Bush, September 11th 2001
Evil! Like a zombie back from the grave, it has arisen--a word many of us had long ago relegated to Sunday sermons, video games and horror flicks. But of course, evil is not old fashioned, nor has it ever...
by Peter Brian Barry
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides both...
New Demons
Rethinking Power and Evil Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
As long as we care about suffering in the world, says political philosopher Simona Forti, we are compelled to inquire into the question of evil. But is the concept of evil still useful in a postmodern landscape where absolute values have been leveled and relativized by a historicist perspective? Given...
What's So Great about God
A Reasonable Defense of the Goodness of God in a World Filled with Suffering
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
For a lot of people, the biggest question about God is not, surprisingly enough, whether He exists. Instead, it is about whether God is truly good. Dinesh D’Souza, in his debates with leading atheists, quickly realized that many of those debates revolved around the question of evil in this world—how...