This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term, Dews argues that we cannot do without it. Yet our intuitions about evil pull us in different directions. The centrality of the ideal of rational autonomy to our modern self-image makes it hard for us to accommodate deeply rooted and obscurely destructive motivations. Furthermore, once having recognized the reality of evil, we may find ourselves succumbing to moral paralysis, even despair.Dews shows that these concerns are not marginal to the European philosophical tradition. They have perturbed some of the greatest thinkers of the modern age, from Kant and the German Idealists, via Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, to Levinas and Adorno. Written with lucidity and verve, "The Idea of Evil" traces a struggle to translate religious insights into secular, philosophical terms - and to acknowledge the perverse impulse of human freedom, without abandoning hope for a more just and compassionate world.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Malden; Oxford
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Blackwell
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
ix, 253 p.; 23 cm.
يادداشت کلی
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN: 9781405117043
یادداشتهای مربوط به عنوان و پدیدآور
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Peter Dews
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1
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
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Kant : the perversion of freedom -- Fichte and Schelling : entangled in nature -- Hegel : a wry theodicy -- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : suffering from meaninglessness -- Levinas : ethics outrance -- Adorno : radical evil as a category of the social
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عنصر شناسه ای
، Good and evil
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
BJ
1406
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D49
I34
2007
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شماره رده
SE
شماره رده
ebook
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