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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456424403321

Autore

Lara María Pía

Titolo

Rethinking Evil [[electronic resource] ] : Contemporary Perspectives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2001

ISBN

0-520-93555-1

1-59734-864-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

111.84

170

Soggetti

Good and evil

Philosophy

Philosophy & Religion

Ethics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives; PART ONE: A Critical Review of Evil; PART TWO: Evil and Moral Philosophy; PART THREE: Postmetaphysical Approaches for a Theory of Evil; PART FOUR: Narratives of Evil; NOTES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another.