The myth of evil : demonizing the enemy / Phillip Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cole, Phillip.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, that they cannot inflict harm for its own sake, and the evidence that pure 'evil' truly is a human capacity. Acts of horror are committed not by inhuman 'monsters', but by ordinary human beings. This contradiction is clearest in the apparently 'extreme' acts of war criminals, terrorists, serial murderers, sex offenders and children who kill. Phillip Cole delves deep into our two, cosily established approaches to evil. There is the traditional approach where evil is a force which creates mo

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; 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; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610538379

9780748671908

0748671900

9781280538377

1280538376

9780748626854

0748626859

OCLC:

475991594

Publisher Number:

9780748626854