The roots of evil /
"Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature....
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Introduction : the problem and the approach
- pt. 1. Forms of evil
- Ch. 2. The sleep of reason
- Ch. 3. Perilous dreams
- Ch. 4. A fatal fusion
- Ch. 5. The revenge of ruined pride
- Ch. 6. Wickedness in high places
- Ch. 7. Disenchantment with ordinary life
- Ch. 8. Taking stock
- pt. 2. Explanations of evil
- Ch. 9. External explanations
- Ch. 10. A biological explanation
- Ch. 11. Internal explanations
- Ch. 12. The mixed explanation
- Ch. 13. Responsibility
- Ch. 14. Toward elementary decency
- Ch. 15. Conclusion : what is to be done?
