The myth of evil /

A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture. 'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.'...

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Autor principal: Cole, Phillip (Autor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press [2006]
Accés en línia:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1r21jm
Taula de continguts:
  • 1. Terrorism, torture and the problems of evil
  • 2. Diabolical evil : searching for Satan
  • 3. Philosophies of evil
  • 4. Communities of fear
  • 5. The enemy within
  • 6. Bad seeds
  • 7. The character of evil
  • 8. Facing the Holocaust
  • 9. Twenty-first-century mythologies.