Thirteen original essays examine the conceptual history of evil in the west: from ancient Hebrew literature and Greek drama to Darwinism and Holocaust theory. Thirteen reflections contextualize the philosophical developments by looking at evil through the eyes of animals, poets, mystics, witches, librettists, film directors, and tech executives.
Thirteen original essays examine the conceptual history of evil in the west: from ancient Hebrew literature and Greek drama to Darwinism and Holocaust theory. Thirteen reflections contextualize the philosophical developments by looking at evil through the eyes of animals, poets, mystics, witches, librettists, film directors, and tech executives.
Andrew P. Chignell is Professor at Princeton University. He has published articles in early modern philosophy (especially on the work of Immanuel Kant), epistemology and the ethics of belief, aesthetics, and the philosophy of religion. He is currently writing a book on Kantian theories of hope.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Andrew P. Chignell * Chapter 1. Evil, Unintelligibility, Radicality: Footnotes to a Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers * Andrew P. Chignell * Chapter 2. Kakology: A Study of Some Evil Words * Antonia Ruppel * Chapter 3. Evil in the Hebrew Bible: The Case of the Wisdom Literature * Carol A. Newsom * Reflection: The Early History of Satan: Before the satan Was Evil * Esther Hamori * Reflection: Meat and Evil * Matthew C. Halteman * Chapter 4. Explaining Evil in Plato, Euripedes, and Seneca * Rachana Kamtekar * Chapter 5. Explaining Evil in Late Antiquity: Plotinus and his Critics * Dominic J. O'Meara * Chapter 6. Augustine on Evil * Peter King * Reflection: Hell as a Problem of Evil in Medieval Women Mystics * Clark West * Chapter 7. ... "but draw not nigh this tree": Evil in Early Islamic Thought * Nadja Germann * Chapter 8. Evil and Late Medieval Thought * Brian Davies * Reflection: Dante and the Evil of Treachery: Narrative and Philosophy * Eleonore Stump * Reflection: Calvinism and the Demonic in the Divine * Derk Pereboom * Reflection: Feminine Evil and Witchcraft * Sarah Pinnock * Chapter 9. Evils, Privations, and the Early Moderns * Samuel Newlands * Reflection: Is Don Giovanni Evil? * Elaine Sisman * Reflection: Kant's Journey on Evil * George Huxford * Chapter 10. Evil in Classical German Philosophy: Selfhood, Deception, and Despair * Allen Wood * Reflection: Leopardi, "Everything is Evil" * Silvia De Toffoli * Chapter 11. What Happened to Evil? * Susan Neiman * Chapter 12. Evil, Natural Science, and Animal Suffering * Eric Martin and Eric Watkins * Reflection: Cinematic Evil * Christy Mag Uidhir * Reflection: The Banality of Evil * Jennifer Geddes * Chapter 13. Evil after the Holocaust * Gabriel Motzkin * Reflection: Satanically Great Instigators and Banal Compliers * Avishai Margalit * Reflection: On Google and Not Being Evil * Wesley Chan * Index
* Introduction * Andrew P. Chignell * Chapter 1. Evil, Unintelligibility, Radicality: Footnotes to a Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers * Andrew P. Chignell * Chapter 2. Kakology: A Study of Some Evil Words * Antonia Ruppel * Chapter 3. Evil in the Hebrew Bible: The Case of the Wisdom Literature * Carol A. Newsom * Reflection: The Early History of Satan: Before the satan Was Evil * Esther Hamori * Reflection: Meat and Evil * Matthew C. Halteman * Chapter 4. Explaining Evil in Plato, Euripedes, and Seneca * Rachana Kamtekar * Chapter 5. Explaining Evil in Late Antiquity: Plotinus and his Critics * Dominic J. O'Meara * Chapter 6. Augustine on Evil * Peter King * Reflection: Hell as a Problem of Evil in Medieval Women Mystics * Clark West * Chapter 7. ... "but draw not nigh this tree": Evil in Early Islamic Thought * Nadja Germann * Chapter 8. Evil and Late Medieval Thought * Brian Davies * Reflection: Dante and the Evil of Treachery: Narrative and Philosophy * Eleonore Stump * Reflection: Calvinism and the Demonic in the Divine * Derk Pereboom * Reflection: Feminine Evil and Witchcraft * Sarah Pinnock * Chapter 9. Evils, Privations, and the Early Moderns * Samuel Newlands * Reflection: Is Don Giovanni Evil? * Elaine Sisman * Reflection: Kant's Journey on Evil * George Huxford * Chapter 10. Evil in Classical German Philosophy: Selfhood, Deception, and Despair * Allen Wood * Reflection: Leopardi, "Everything is Evil" * Silvia De Toffoli * Chapter 11. What Happened to Evil? * Susan Neiman * Chapter 12. Evil, Natural Science, and Animal Suffering * Eric Martin and Eric Watkins * Reflection: Cinematic Evil * Christy Mag Uidhir * Reflection: The Banality of Evil * Jennifer Geddes * Chapter 13. Evil after the Holocaust * Gabriel Motzkin * Reflection: Satanically Great Instigators and Banal Compliers * Avishai Margalit * Reflection: On Google and Not Being Evil * Wesley Chan * Index
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