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Literature has been concerned 1) with the origin of evil; 2) with its illumina- tion and sublimation through various patterns of thought, emotion, and art; and 3) with struggle against its actualities through revolution, conquest, or. faith. The most ancient traditions of myth and religion have given classic form to the problem.
Dec 10, 2021 · These are some of the key metaphysical questions that philosophers have raised concerning evil. The goal of this entry is to provide a taxonomy of the most prominent answers: the main theories of evil’s kinds and origins on offer in the western philosophical tradition.
Nov 26, 2013 · 2. The History of Theories of Evil. Prior to World War II there was very little philosophical literature on the concept of evil in the narrow sense. However, philosophers have considered the nature and origins of evil in the broad sense since ancient times.
May 23, 2019 · By the early 1700s, it had become standard practice to distinguish three kinds of evil: (a) evils of imperfection (sometimes called “metaphysical evils”); (b) physical evils (sometimes called “natural evils”); and (c) moral evils (often called “sins”).
May 23, 2019 · In Evil: A History, 13original essays tell the story of the concept of evil in the west, starting with its origins in early Hebrew wisdom literature and ending with evolutionary theory and the Holocaust. 13 Reflections contextualize these developments by considering evil through the eyes of poets, mystics, witches, librettists, directors ...
The essays and Reflections published here offer a unique, timely, and (in my biased view) absorbing history of the concept of evil, from its beginnings in the Hebrew, Greek, and Islamic traditions, to its prominent roles in recent debates about evolutionary theory and the Holocaust.
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This collection of essays explores the representations, incarnations and manifestations of evil when it is embodied in a particular villain or in an evil presence. All the essays contribute to showing how omnipresent yet vastly under-studied the phenomena of the villain and evil are.
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