Good Evil category: 530 books

"If we put away all the etymological jargon and destroy all self-created images and technical descriptions, then it is as simple as this - a moral being is a good being - a religious being - a conscientious being - a wise being." Abhijit Naskar is the name of an idea that has swept...

Can war ever be just? By what right do we charge people with war crimes? Can war itself be a crime? What is a good peace treaty? Since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many wars have erupted, inflaming such areas as the Persian Gulf, Central Africa and Central Europe. Brutalities committed...

BOILWORT STOOD STOICALLY as the devils crowded into the great Hall of Learning. Scorndob and Angrielle glared at the master tempter in guarded anticipation. They were just as surprised as I was that we had been invited to participate in advanced studies. I wondered what that meant. Boilwort moved closer...

All the good men and women, past and present, who shone a light for others to follow, had their own share of demons to conquer, and they emerged victorious. Malcolm is a young Harvard graduate visiting Italy. He befriends an enigmatic priest who offers to give him a tour of the Duomo Cathedral. The...

CRITICISM of Nietzsche is rife, understanding rare; this book is a contribution to the understanding of him. At the same time I have tried not merely to restate his thoughts, but to re-think them, using more or less my own language. To enable those interested to judge of the correctness of the interpretation,...

Nietzsche has a poor reputation among many of the liberal intelligentsia for, among other things, his critique of liberal rationalism and the preservation of the over-man/Superman (Übermensch), but is his near villainous reputation deserved? He was, certainly, a complicated, ambiguous and contradictory...

IT is related of Archbishop Benson that when he first made acquaintance with London society he asked in his bewilderment: "What do these people believe?" If he were alive to-day he would suffer a like astonishment, but his question would rather take the form: "What don't these people...

Il punto di partenza assunto nel saggio è la definibilità del bene, una volta che ci si occupi di esso non in quanto assoluto e irraggiungibile, ma piuttosto vedendolo come bene umano, praticabile e realizzabile. Come tale, esso è l’oggetto delle aspirazioni umane e concretamente indicato nei...

L’inferno siamo noi. Sembra essere questo il giudizio sull’uomo mai pronunciato da un Camus ormai stanco e disilluso. Pensatore oggi evocato per il suo appello a concetti come limite e misura, antidoti allo smarrimento dell’assurdo, Camus fu anche uomo dilaniato dall’impossibilità di coniugare...

In her fourth book, Lillian Moats constructs an astonishing appraisal of humanity through the eyes of Death itself. As an insightful, philosophical and witty narrator, Death takes a tour through the follies of human past, present and future to approach seemingly complex matters with startling directness.Full...

Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows us the better way to fight crime? Who is a morally better person? Whose actions lead to the better outcomes? Superman vs. Batman and Philosophy tries to...

`Anyone who wants to gain a quick idea of how before me everything was topsy-turvy should make a start with this work. That which is called idol on the title-page is quite simply that which was called truth hitherto. Twilight of the Idols - in plain words: the old truth is coming to an end...' Nietzsche...

Explications - Et soudain, Gaétane fut là - 11-2-16. Deuxième livre publié par Claudette Duchesne en relation avec les sujets romanesques. Henrik et Maureen filait le parfait amour. Ils s'entendaient sur tout. Ils s'aimaient tant. Puis, soudain, Gaétane...