The Idea of Evil (Repost)
Peter Dews, "The Idea of Evil"
2007 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1405117044 | PDF | 0,9 mb
2007 | pages: 264 | ISBN: 1405117044 | PDF | 0,9 mb
This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea ofevil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moralvocabulary.
- Surveys the intellectual debate on the nature of evil over thepast two hundred years
- Engages with a broad range of discourses and thinkers, fromKant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, toLevinas and Adorno
- Suggests that the concept of moral evil touches on a neuralgicpoint in western culture
- Argues that, despite the widespread abuse and politicalmanipulation of the term ‘evil’, we cannot do withoutit
- Concludes that if we use the concept of evil, we mustacknowledge its religious dimension
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