Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy

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 exp

• | By (Author): Susan Neiman (Author)
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2015
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 408 pages
• | Language: NULL
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 0691168504
• | ISBN-13: 9780691168500