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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... Google Books
Originally published: July 2002
Author: Susan Neiman
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This is a long and complex book, possibly longer and more complex than it needs to be in order to establish its main thesis, namely that “The problem of evil is ...
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Aug 25, 2015 · Description. A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorism.
Beautifully written and thoroughly engaging, this book tells the history of modern philosophy as an attempt to come to terms with evil. It reintroduces ...
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EVIL IN MODERN THOUGHT: An Alternative History of Philosophy. By Susan Neiman. Princeton Univ. Press. 358 pp. $29.95. Susan Neiman's "alternative history of ...
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Mar 6, 2003 · Susan Neiman's Evil in Modern Thought is a sustained meditation on the importance of death and suffering as themes for the development of modern ...