Destined for Evil?: The Twentieth-Century Responses

doi:10.1017/9781580466400

This collection of fifteen essays on various aspects of the problem of evil brings together the opinions of well known authors from various disciplines, including philosophy, theology, literary criticism, and political science.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
pp v-viii
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Acknowledgments
pp ix-x
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Introduction: The Anatomy of Evil
pp 1-16
- By Predrag Cicovacki
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PART I - HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON EVIL
pp 17-18
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1 - Two Thousand Years and No New God
pp 19-44
- By Gil Bailie
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2 - Identifying Good and Evil
pp 45-58
- By Nicholas Wolterstorff
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3 - Kant and Radical Evil
pp 59-74
- By Emil L. Fackenheim
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4 - Uprooting Evil and the Building of Ethical Communities
pp 75-80
- By Sharon Anderson-Gold
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5 - The Reality of Radical Evil
pp 81-90
- By Jeffrey B. Russell
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6 - Roads to Hell
pp 91-110
- By Susan Neiman
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PART II - CONFRONTING EVIL IN OUR DIVIDED WORLD: ON GENOCIDE, SELF-DESTRUCTION, AND WAR
pp 111-112
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7 - The Banality of Evil: Failing to Think
pp 113-118
- By Hannah Arendt
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8 - Ordinary People and Extraordinary Vices
pp 119-132
- By Tzvetan Todorov
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9 - Are Wars Inevitable?
pp 133-146
- By Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud
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10 - From Relative to Absolute Evil
pp 147-154
- By Svetozar Stojanovic
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11 - Killing in Vietnam: What Have We Done to Our Soldiers?
pp 155-164
- By Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
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12 - Thou Shalt Not Kill
pp 165-168
- By Hermann Hesse
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PART III - FACING THE DARKNESS WITHIN: ON OUR SPIRITUAL CRISIS
pp 169-170
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13 - Searching for Self-Knowledge and Divine Wholeness
pp 171-176
- By Carl Gustav Jung
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14 - Love and Cruelty: A Blue Spot in the Middle of the Hurricane
pp 177-182
- By Philip Paul Hallie
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15 - Goodness at the Heart of Being
pp 183-196
- By Rabbi Michael Lerner
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16 - We Are Prodigals in a Distant Land: An Essay on Thomas Merton
pp 197-204
- By John P. Collins
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17 - Recovering Paradise: Thomas Merton on the Self and the Problem of Evil
pp 205-212
- By Thomas Del Prete
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18 - Exposing the Deceitful Heart: A Monk’s Public “Inner Work”
pp 213-220
- By Jonathan Montaldo
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PART IV - PORTRAYALS OF EVIL IN ART
pp 221-222
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19 - Lamentations and Losses: From New York to Kabul
pp 223-240
- By Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
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20 - Evil as Mystery: Primal Speech and Contemporary Poetry
pp 241-248
- By Michael True
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21 - The Trial of Man and The Trial of God: Job and Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor
pp 249-260
- By Predrag Cicovacki
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22 - The Resurrection of Hell
pp 261-272
- By Leo Tolstoy
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