03418nam 2200553 450 991081680570332120230803204413.01-62894-095-6(CKB)3710000000222662(EBL)1771465(SSID)ssj0001292429(PQKBManifestationID)12561793(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001292429(PQKBWorkID)11284476(PQKB)10346623(MiAaPQ)EBC1771465(Au-PeEL)EBL1771465(CaPaEBR)ebr10909654(OCoLC)887803877(EXLCZ)99371000000022266220140831h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrConceiving evil a phenomenology of perpetration /Wendy C. Hamblet ; images by Martin CamarataNew York :Algora Publishing,2014.©20141 online resource (184 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-62894-093-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface; Chapter One. The Phenomenon of Evil; Chapter Two. Evil in the Logic of the Cosmos; 1. Love of Order in the Western Tradition; 2. Evil in the Unreason of Humans; 3. Evil as Unharmonious Competitivism; 4. Is Love of Order a Fitting Value for a Democratic World?; Chapter Three. Evil in Physis; 1. Mother's Evil Aspect; 2. Aggression in the Human Animal; 3. Aggressive Nature Nurtured; 4. Nietzsche on Natural Vitality and the Evils of Weakness; Chapter Four. Evil as Soul Fragmented and Disemboweled; 1. Plato on Psyche; 2. The Fragmentation of Psyche in Plato's Republic3. Modernity's Self: Humanity DisemboweledChapter Five. Innocent Evil and the Ego; 1. Innocently Egoist and Alone; 2. Subjective Innocence Unveiled; 3. Heroic Adventure in Homer's Iliad: A Levinasian Reading; Chapter Six. Evil in Nomos; 1. Cautions concerning Religious Anthropology; 2. The Religious Worldview; 3. The Archaic Roots of Religion; 4. Moral Fault-lines in the Religious Worldview; 5. The Phenomenon of Religious Experience; 6. Evil as the Other Face of the God(s); 7. The Gods Rise to Perfection; Humans Fall; 8. Gods That Don't Dance; Chapter Seven. Evil in the Reasons of States1. Civilization and Evil2. The Uses of Evil; Chapter Eight. See No Evil. Do No Evil; Afterword; Bibliography; IndexThis book argues that the epistemological framework that permits us to see others as ''evil'' also resituates our own moral compass and reframes our moral world such that we can justify performing violent deeds, which we would readily demonize in others, as the heroics of eradicating evil. When conflict is understood positively as the confrontation of differences, an unavoidable and indeed desirable consequence of the rich tapestry of earthly life, then a discussion can open as to how to navigate the countless confrontations of difference in the most skillful way. Through this lens, violence cGood and evilGood and evil.170Hamblet Wendy C.1949-1629818Camarata MartinMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816805703321Conceiving evil4027049UNINA