Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives by Mar?a P?a Lara (English) Paperback

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Suitable for moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and those who reflect seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another, this title brings together the essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world.

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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. María Pía Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a "postmetaphysical" world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The question of how and why God permits evil events to occur is replaced by the question of how and why humans perform radically evil acts.

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"In an environment in which philosophy increasingly shies away from the big questions, this volume takes them on in a conscientious, analytical, and enlightening way. For Lara, the problem is not just that human beings suffer but that other human beings intentionally want to make them suffer, and to suffer in such extreme ways that the explanations offered by natural and social science seem as insufficient as those offered by older theodicies. The volume makes for engrossing reading; it sheds new light on an age-old issue."--Georgia Warnke, author of Legitimate Differences "An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion."--David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory

Author Biography

Maria Pia Lara is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Iztapalapa, Mexico.

Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives 1 Maria Pia Lara Part One: A Critical Review of Evil 1. Is God Evil? Isabel Cabrera 2. What's the Problem of Evil? Susan Neiman 3. "Radical Finitude" and the Problem of Evil: Critical Comments on Wellmer's Reading of Jonas Peter Dews Part Two: Evil and Moral Philosophy 4. Radical Evil: Kant at War with Himself, Richard J. Bernstein 5. Reflections on the Banality of (Radical) Evil: A Kantian Analysis, Henry E. Allison 6. The Polyhedron of Evil, Gustavo Leyva 7. An Evil Heart: Moral Evil and Moral Identity, Maeve Cooke 8. Understanding Evil: Arendt and the Final Solution, Robert Fine Part Three: Postmetaphysical Approaches for a Theory of Evil 9. Toward a Sociology of Evil: Getting beyond Modernist Common Sense about the Alternative to "the Good," Jeffrey C. Alexander 10. The Evil That Men Do: A Meditation on Radical Evil from a Postmetaphysical Point of View Alessandro Ferrara 11. Major Offenders, Minor Offenders, Sergio Perez 12. On Pain, the Suffering of Wrong, and Other Grievances: Responsibility, Manuel Cruz 13. Forgiveness and Oblivion: A New Form of Banality of Evil?, Carlos Pereda Part Four: Narratives of Evil 14. "Happy Endings" hrs/hrs Unendings: Narratives of Evil, Carol L. Bernstein 15. Narrating Evil: A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment, Maria Pia Lara Notes List of Contributors Index

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"In an environment in which philosophy increasingly shies away from the big questions, this volume takes them on in a conscientious, analytical, and enlightening way. For Lara, the problem is not just that human beings suffer but that other human beings intentionally want to make them suffer, and to suffer in such extreme ways that the explanations offered by natural and social science seem as insufficient as those offered by older theodicies. The volume makes for engrossing reading; it sheds new light on an age-old issue." - Georgia Warnke, author of Legitimate Differences "An important work because it inaugurates a distinctive secular approach to the problem of evil, which has generally been the province of theology and the philosophy of religion." - David M. Rasmussen, editor of The Handbook of Critical Theory.

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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. Mar

Details ISBN0520226348 Short Title RETHINKING EVIL Pages 314 Publisher University of California Press Language English ISBN-10 0520226348 ISBN-13 9780520226340 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-11-30 Imprint University of California Press Subtitle Contemporary Perspectives Country of Publication United States Place of Publication Berkerley Illustrations black & white illustrations DOI 10.1604/9780520226340 UK Release Date 2001-11-30 AU Release Date 2001-11-30 NZ Release Date 2001-11-30 US Release Date 2001-11-30 Author María Pía Lara Edited by María Pía Lara DEWEY 111.84 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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