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The Fiction of Evil

Author : Peter Brian Barry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317594770
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of Evil written by Peter Brian Barry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed? Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of literature by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde alongside classic works of philosophy by Nietzsche and Aristotle. By considering great texts from literature and philosophy, Barry examines whether evil is merely a fiction. The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature can contribute to the study of metaphysics and ethics and it is essential reading for those studying the concept of evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.

Unmasking Administrative Evil

Author : Danny L. Balfour
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317507614
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Unmasking Administrative Evil written by Danny L. Balfour and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern age with its emphasis on technical rationality has enabled a new and dangerous form of evil--administrative evil. Unmasking Administrative Evil discusses the overlooked relationship between evil and public affairs, as well as other fields and professions in public life. The authors argue that the tendency toward administrative evil, as manifested in acts of dehumanization and genocide, is deeply woven into the identity of public affairs. The common characteristic of administrative evil is that ordinary people within their normal professional and administrative roles can engage in acts of evil without being aware that they are doing anything wrong. Under conditions of moral inversion, people may even view their evil activity as good. In the face of what is now a clear and present danger in the United States, this book seeks to lay the groundwork for a more ethical and democratic public life; one that recognizes its potential for evil, and thereby creates greater possibilities for avoiding the hidden pathways that lead to state-sponsored dehumanization and destruction. What's new in the Fourth Edition of Unmasking Administrative Evil: UAE is updated and revised with new scholarship on administrative ethics, evil, and contemporary politics. The authors include new cases on the dangers of market-based governance, contracting out, and deregulation. There is an enhanced focus on the potential for administrative evil in the private sector. The authors have written a new Afterword on administrative approaches to the aftermath of evil, with the potential for expiation, healing, and reparations.

Myth of Evil

Author : Phillip Cole
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626859
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Myth of Evil written by Phillip Cole and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical history of the concept of evil in western culture. 'Evil is something to be feared, and historically, we shall see, it is the enemy within who has been seen as representing the most intense evil of all - the enemy who looks just like us, talks like us, and is just like us.' The Myth of Evil explores a contradiction: the belief that human beings cannot commit acts of pure evil, that they cannot inflict harm for its own sake, and the evidence that pure 'evil' truly is a human capacity. Acts of horror are committed not by inhuman 'monsters', but by ordinary human beings. This contradiction is clearest in the apparently 'extreme' acts of war criminals, terrorists, serial murderers, sex offenders and children who kill. Phillip Cole delves deep into our two, cosily established approaches to evil. There is the traditional approach where evil is a force which creates monsters in human shape. And there is the 'enlightened' perspective where evil is the consequence of the actions of misguided or mentally deranged agents. Cole rejects both approaches. Satan may have played a role in its evolution, but evil is really a myth we have created about ourselves. And to understand it fully, we must acknowledge this. Drawing on the philosophical ideas of Nietzsche, Arendt, Kant, Mary Midgley and others, as well as theology, psychoanalysis, fictional representations and contemporary political events such as the global 'war on terror', Cole presents an account of evil that is thorough and thought-provoking, and which, more fundamentally, compels us to reassess our understanding of human nature.

Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept

Author : R. J. Rushdoony
Publisher : Chalcedon Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1879998823
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Infallibility: An Inescapable Concept written by R. J. Rushdoony and published by Chalcedon Foundation. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The doctrine of the infallibility of Scripture can be denied, but the concept of infallibility as such cannot be logically denied. Infallibility is an inescapable concept. If men refuse to ascribe infallibility to Scripture, it is because the concept has been transferred to something else. The word infallibility is not normally used in these transfers; the concept is disguised and veiled, but in a variety of ways, infallibility is ascribed to concepts, things, men and institutions." This is one of two Systematic Theology booklets that would later become part of R. J. Rushdoony's larger Systematic Theology set.

Bird-Bent Grass

Author : Kathleen Venema
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771122927
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Bird-Bent Grass written by Kathleen Venema and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird-Bent Grass chronicles an extraordinary mother–daughter relationship that spans distance, time, and, eventually, debilitating illness. Personal, familial, and political narratives unfold through the letters that Geeske Venema-de Jong and her daughter Kathleen exchanged during the late 1980s and through their weekly conversations, which started after Geeske was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease twenty years later. In 1986, Kathleen accepted a three-year teaching assignment in Uganda, after a devastating civil war, and Geeske promised to be her daughter’s most faithful correspondent. The two women exchanged more than two hundred letters that reflected their lively interest in literature, theology, and politics, and explored ideas about identity, belonging, and home in the context of cross-cultural challenges. Two decades later, with Geeske increasingly beset by Alzheimer’s disease, Kathleen returned to the letters, where she rediscovered the evocative image of a tiny, bright meadow bird perched precariously on a blade of elephant grass. That image – of simultaneous tension, fragility, power, and resilience – sustained her over the years that she used the letters as memory prompts in a larger strategy to keep her intellectually gifted mother alive. Deftly woven of excerpts from their correspondence, conversations, journal entries, and email updates, Bird-Bent Grass is a complex and moving exploration of memory, illness, and immigration; friendship, conflict, resilience, and forgiveness; cross-cultural communication, the ethics of international development, and letter-writing as a technology of intimacy. Throughout, it reflects on the imperative and fleeting business of being alive and loving others while they’re ours to hold.

A Reading of the Canterbury Tales

Author : Bernard Felix Hupp?
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873950114
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Reading of the Canterbury Tales written by Bernard Felix Hupp? and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the human comedy of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales the pilgrims react to one another. The tales they tell reveal their own characters and serve in turn to supply dramatic settings for other tales told in response. In the chronicle of their self-revelations and of their reactions to one another, a thematic design may be traced. Chaucer's art of high comedy has behind it a literary tradition of which it is the fulfillment. Briefly this is the thesis of Professor Bernard F. Huppé's A Reading of the Canterbury Tales. The book itself is the direct result of more than fifteen years of lecturing on the Canterbury Tales, during which time Professor Huppé's views on the dramatic structure of the tales have been modified, clarified, and sharpened through discussion with students and colleagues, and through his study of Chaucer's literary tradition. A Reading of the Canterbury Tales retains the freshness and immediacy of a lecture series. It is intended to be provocative and to stimulate active discussion.

Does Religion Cause Violence?

Author : Joel Hodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501333844
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Does Religion Cause Violence? written by Joel Hodge and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most pressing issues of our time is the outbreak of extremist violence and terrorism, done in the name of religion. This volume critically analyses the link made between religion and violence in contemporary theory and proposes that 'religion' does not have a special relation to violence in opposition to culture, ideology or nationalism. Rather, religion and violence must be understood with relation to fundamental anthropological and philosophical categories such as culture, desire, disaster and rivalry. Does Religion Cause Violence? explores contemporary instances of religious violence, such as Islamist terrorism and radicalization in its various political, economic, religious, military and technological dimensions, as well as the legitimacy and efficacy of modern cultural mechanisms to contain violence, such as nuclear deterrence. Including perspectives from experts in theology, philosophy, terrorism studies, and Islamic studies, this volume brings together the insights of René Girard, the premier theorist of violence in the 20th century, with the latest scholarship on religion and violence, particularly exploring the nature of extremist violence.

Understanding Global Slavery

Author : Kevin Bales
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520245075
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Global Slavery written by Kevin Bales and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery continues as a blight on the human world, with an estimated 27 million people around the world in bondage. Kevin Bales undertakes a discussion of the causes of enslavement & the socio-economic factors that sustain slavery in the 21st century.

Miller's Children

Author : James Garbarino
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295684
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Miller's Children written by James Garbarino and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miller's Children is a comprehensive look at the consequences of the US Supreme Court's decision in the case of Miller v. Alabama, which outlawed mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile murderers. This book describes the author's fieldwork as a psychological expert witness in more than forty resentencing cases of juveniles affected by the Miller decision (and follow-up rulings), providing a wide-ranging review of research on human development in adolescence and early adulthood. It focuses on how and why convicted teenage murderers have been able to accomplish dramatic rehabilitation and transformation, emphasizing the role of spiritual development, education, reflection, and mentoring in that process."--Provided by publisher.

Forgiveness and Revenge

Author : Trudy Govier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1135199108
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Forgiveness and Revenge written by Trudy Govier and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgiveness and Revenge is a powerful exploration of our attitudes to serious wrongdoings and a careful examination of the values that underlie our thinking about revenge and forgiveness. From adulterous spouses to terrorist factions, we are surrounded by wrongdoing, yet we rarely agree which response is appropriate. The problem of how to respond realistically and sensitively to the wrongs of the past remains a perplexing one. Trudy Govier clarifies our thinking on this subject by examining the moral and practical impact of revenge and forgiveness, both personal and political. Forgiveness and Revenge offers much-needed clarity and reason where emotions often prevail. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethics of attitudes to wrongdoing.

Problems at the Roots of Law

Author : Joel Feinberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198035329
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Problems at the Roots of Law written by Joel Feinberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feinberg is one of the leading philosophers of law of the last forty years. This volume collects recent articles, both published and unpublished, on what he terms "basic questions" about the law, particularly in regard to the relationship to morality. Accessibly and elegantly written, this volume's audience will reflect the diverse nature of Feinberg's own interests: scholars in philosophy of law, legal theory, and ethical and moral theory.

Liminal Postmodernisms

Author : Theo d'. Haen
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837568
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Liminal Postmodernisms written by Theo d'. Haen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dr. Karma Looks at THE BIBLE

Author : Karl Matz
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365341380
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Karma Looks at THE BIBLE written by Karl Matz and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding Violence

Author : Lorenzo Magnani
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642219721
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Violence written by Lorenzo Magnani and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out to give a philosophical “applied” account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book’s primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for “moral” reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete moralities. The author’s fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as “coalition enforcement”, “moral bubbles”, “cognitive niches”, “overmoralization”, “military intelligence” and so on, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author’s original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book might help us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically “violent beings”. To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing.

The Last of the Atalanteans

Author : P.L. Stuart
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 103913601X
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Last of the Atalanteans written by P.L. Stuart and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A painted mage. An unfaithful queen. A stolen throne. Three lords in disguise. Escaping Atalantyx’s destruction, Prince Othrun has forged alliances with Eltnish kings: former enemy Hert and King Wely, who has promised Othrun a kingdom of his own. When Wely’s realm was stolen by Wely’s wife, a powerful mage, and Wely’s brother, a feared warlord, Othrun hatched a daring plan to restore the rightful king. The bold scheme involved Othrun entering Lynchun in disguise, risking his life and the life of those with him, to topple the usurpers. But for Othrun’s plot to succeed, he must entrust his Atalanteans into the uncertain hands of Hert—on the cusp of confronting his own political challenges to kingship, while tasked with protecting Othrun’s followers—even as Wely, a captive where he should be king, gambles both crown and the head upon which it sat on Othrun’s survival. Othrun’s abilities, faith, and trust in his mysterious guardian spirit are soon to be tested. The mage Lysi continues to entangle herself in Othrun’s affairs, tempting him, challenging his beliefs, and threatening to bring his plans to ruin. But Othrun, Lord of the Last of the Atalanteans, does not intend to fail. He will be a king. Or die trying. Othrun will go to battle, and he will triumph against the odds. If not, all will be burned to ashes, consumed in the fires of his ambition. And so, the ancient war banner of Atalantean kings will fly. One last time. A kingdom has fallen. A legend will rise.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : Collector's Library
ISBN 13 : 9781904633433
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer in Victorian London tries to understand the nature of the strange relationship between his physician friend and the cruel and violent man he seems to protect.

Shadow Place

Author : C.T. Shooting Star
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450286011
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Place written by C.T. Shooting Star and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shooting Star shows us how negative entities can create difficulties at home and in the community. Paranormal investigators who have concerns should benefit from the practical advice given on how to build awareness of various paranormal phenomena.