Understanding evil : an interdisciplinary approach /
Written across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of "evil" and "wickedness." Consisting of three sections - " Grappling with Evil ", &q...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2003.
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| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction.
- PART I Grappling with Evil.
- Neil FORSYTH: Evil and Literature: Grandeur and Nothingness. Theodore SETO: Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms. Robert N. FISHER: The Catheter of Bilious Hatred. Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka's Metamorphosis.
- PART II Justice, Responsibility and War.
- Peter DAY: Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Bill WRINGE: International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil. Scott LOWE: Terrorism and Just War Theory. John T. PARRY: Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism.
- PART III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism.
- Maria Michela MARZANO: Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness. John A. HUMBACH: The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict). Ramzi NASSER: Rescuing Kant's Retributivism. Jean MURLEY: Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe. Karen-Margrethe SIMONSEN: Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist's Story "Michael Kohlhaas". Notes Contributors.
