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Evil in Modern Thought : An Alternative History of Philosophy
Evil in Modern Thought An Alternative History of Philosophy
Author: Susan Neiman
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691117928
ISBN-10: 0691117926
Publication Date: 3/1/2004
Pages: 376
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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