| #949019 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2007-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.20 x6.00l,.85 | File Name: 0801473810 | 278 pages |
||10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting discussion|By S. B. Volchan|This book provides a cogent analysis of evil and along the way presents many interesting topics linked to moral values, responsibility and ethics. One important point is the recognition that evil is not mysterious but is part of the ambivalence, contradictions and propensities of human nature. Hence, contrary to the Enlightenment naive||| "This is an interesting, systematic, nondogmatic, and informed attempt to make sense of evil on secular grounds."―Times Literary Supplement
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"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally impor...
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