"I more than others" : responses to evil and suffering / edited by Eric R. Severson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Severson, Eric R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Suffering.

Suffering--Philosophy.

Suffering--Religious aspects.

Good and evil.

Good and evil--Philosophy.

Good and evil--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky expressed a strange and surprising sentiment through one of the characters of The Brothers Karamazov. A dying young man named Markel declares: ""Every one of us has sinned against all men, and I more than others." He later says: "...every one of us is answerable for everyone else and for everything." Markel's absurd claims have engendered many reflections on the nature of suffering and what it means to be responsible for someone else's suffering. The world has no shortage of p...

Contents:

pt. I. Slumdogs, flesh, and weakness

pt. II. Ecology and evil

pt. III. Suffering, hospitality, and hope

pt. IV. The nature, reality, and problem of evil.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-58526-6

9786612585265

1-4438-1819-4

OCLC:

648448098