Rethinking evil : contemporary perspectives / edited by Maria Pia Lara.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lara, María Pía.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives; PART ONE: A Critical Review of Evil; PART TWO: Evil and Moral Philosophy; PART THREE: Postmetaphysical Approaches for a Theory of Evil; PART FOUR: Narratives of Evil; NOTES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-293) and index.

ISBN:

0-520-93555-1

1-59734-864-3

OCLC:

475928938