Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
Title Confronting Evil PDF eBook
Author James Waller
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 425
Release 2016
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0199300704

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This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself.

Facing Evil

Facing Evil
Title Facing Evil PDF eBook
Author Paul Woodruff
Publisher Open Court Publishing
Pages 324
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780812695175

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From slavery to the Holocaust to the destruction of the World Trade Center, the specter of human evil continues to haunt and defy all attempts at explanation. This collection of lectures - given at a symposium on evil by prominent scholars, writers, theologians and philosophers - resonates powerfully as we continue to confront the devastation wrought by even a single individual caught in the grip of evil.

First, Do No Unjust Harm

First, Do No Unjust Harm
Title First, Do No Unjust Harm PDF eBook
Author John Pletz
Publisher Rlpg/Galleys
Pages 188
Release 2003
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Defining "evil," after some deliberation, as a harmful act for which someone is responsible that has no moral justification, the author presents a philosophical argument on recognizing evil using "means" and "ends" analysis. He then discusses why evil should be opposed by individuals and personal methods for opposing it without causing more harm than good. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Confronting Evil in International Relations

Confronting Evil in International Relations
Title Confronting Evil in International Relations PDF eBook
Author R. Jeffery
Publisher Springer
Pages 234
Release 2008-05-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0230612539

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This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.

Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
Title Confronting Evil PDF eBook
Author Fred E. Katz
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 204
Release 2004-03-29
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780791460306

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Using insights from behavioral science, a Holocaust survivor explores how evil actions can seem "moral" to the perpetrators and how we must alter our thinking to prevent this.

Confronting Evil in History

Confronting Evil in History
Title Confronting Evil in History PDF eBook
Author Daniel Little
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 134
Release 2022-10-13
Genre History
ISBN 1009117734

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Evil is sometimes thought to be incomprehensible and abnormal, falling outside of familiar historical and human processes. And yet the twentieth century was replete with instances of cruelty on a massive scale, including systematic torture, murder, and enslavement of ordinary, innocent human beings. These overwhelming atrocities included genocide, totalitarianism, the Holocaust, and the Holodomor. This Element underlines the importance of careful, truthful historical investigation of the complicated realities of dark periods in human history; the importance of understanding these events in terms that give attention to the human experience of the people who were subject to them and those who perpetrated them; the question of whether the idea of 'evil' helps us to confront these periods honestly; and the possibility of improving our civilization's resilience in the face of the impulses towards cruelty to other human beings that have so often emerged.

Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
Title Confronting Evil PDF eBook
Author Scott M. Powers
Publisher Purdue University Press
Pages 274
Release 2016-04-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1612494536

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Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature holds that the concept of evil is central to the psychology of secularism. Drawing on notions of secularization as a phenomenon of ambivalence or dualism in which religion continues to exist alongside secularity in exerting influence on modern French thought, author Scott M. Powers enlists psychoanalytic theory on mourning and sublimation, the philosophical concept of the sublime, Charles Taylor's theory of religious and secular "cross-pressures," and William James's psychology of conversion to account for the survival of religious themes in Baudelaire, Zola, Huysmans, and Céline. For Powers, Baudelaire's prose poems, Zola's experimental novels, and Huysmans's and Céline's early narratives attempt to account for evil by redefining the traditionally religious concept along secular lines. However, when unmitigated by the mechanisms of irony and sublimation, secular confrontation with the dark and seemingly absurd dimension of man leads modern writers such as Huysmans and Céline, paradoxically, to embrace a religious or quasi-religious understanding of good and evil. In the end, Powers finds that how authors cope with the reality of suffering and human wickedness has a direct bearing on the ability to sustain a secular vision.