Evil in the western philosophical tradition / Gavin Rae.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rae, Gavin, 1982- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil--Philosophy.

Good and evil.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Gavin Rae analyses the history of Western conceptions of evil, showing it to be remarkably complex, differentiated and contested. He traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART I Theological Foundations

1. The Rise of the Problem of Evil

2. Augustine, Free Will, and Evil

3. Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin

4. Descartes and the Evil of Error

5. Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good

PART II From Autonomous Reason to History

6. Kant on Radical Evil

7. Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil

8. Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil

PART III Socialisation and Psychoanalysis

9. Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal

10. Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil

11. Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary

PART IV The Subjects of Evil

12. The Perpetrators of Evil

13. Remembering the Victims

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-340) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-6520-X

1-4744-4534-9

OCLC:

1306541626