Between Good And Evil

Author : Roger L. Depue,Susan Schindehette
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759513273

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Between Good and Evil by Roger L. Depue,Susan Schindehette Pdf

He was a pioneer in modern law enforcement, a trailblazing leader in the hunt for serial killers. But after decades of staring deep into the darkness, he entered a seminary to search for the good... BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL No one gets closer to evil than a criminal profiler, trained to penetrate the hearts and minds of society's most vicious psychopaths. And no one is a more towering figure in the world of criminal profilers than Roger L. Depue. Chief of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit at a time when its innovative work first came to prominence, he headed a renowned team of mind hunters that included John Douglas, Robert Ressler, and Roy Hazelwood. In a subbasement sixty feet under the Academy gun vault in Quantico, he broke new ground with analytical techniques and training programs that are still used today. After retiring from the FBI, he founded an elite forensics group that consulted on high-profile cases, including the Martha Moxley and JonBenet Ramsey murders, and the Columbine school shootings. But coming face-to-face with the darkest deeds human beings are capable of took a horrific toll. After suffering a devastating personal loss, Depue, on the brink of despair, walked away from the outside world and joined a seminary. For three years this was his safe haven, a place where he exorcised personal demons and found a refuge from terrifying memories of real-life monsters. And it was there, while counseling maximum security inmates, that he rediscovered the capacity for goodness in people, and made the decision to return to the world to resume his work. Here is Depue's extraordinary personal account, from growing up as a police officer's son to tracking down some of today's most brutal murderers. With its harrowing descriptions of human depravity and passionate call to fight against evil, BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL is both a riveting dispatch from the front lines of a war against human predators...and the powerful story of one man's journey between darkness and redemption.

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857088482

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Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche Pdf

A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one of the most well-known and influential explorations of moral and ethical philosophy ever conceived. Expanding on the concepts from his previous work Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche adopts a polemic approach to past philosophers who, in his view, lacked critical sense in accepting flawed premises in their consideration of morality. The metaphysics of morality, Nietzsche argues, should not assume that a good man is simply the opposite of an evil man, rather merely different expression of humanity’s common basic impulses. Controversial in its time, as well as hotly debated in the present, Nietzsche’s work moves beyond conventional ethics to suggest that a universal morality for all human beings in non-existent – perception, reason and experience are not static, but change according to an individual’s perspective and interpretation. The work further argues that philosophic traditions such as “truth,” “self-consciousness” and “free will” are merely inventions of Western morality and that the “will to power” is the real driving force of all human behaviour. This volume: Critiques the belief that actions, including domination or injury to the weak, can be universally objectionable Explores themes of religion and “master and slave” morality Includes a collection of stunning aphorisms and observations of the human condition Part of the bestselling Capstone Classics Series edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon,this collectible, hard-back edition of Beyond Good and Evil provides an accessible and insightful Introduction by leading Nietzsche authority Dr Christopher Janaway. This deluxe volume is perfect for anyone with interest in philosophy, psychology, science, history and literature.

Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780679429227

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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Author : Martin Buber
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Bible. Psalms
ISBN : IND:30000125462501

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Good and Evil by Martin Buber Pdf

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Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : Crown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307886866

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Just Babies by Paul Bloom Pdf

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take for granted that babies are born selfish and that it is the role of society—and especially parents—to transform them from little sociopaths into civilized beings. In Just Babies, Paul Bloom argues that humans are in fact hardwired with a sense of morality. Drawing on groundbreaking research at Yale, Bloom demonstrates that, even before they can speak or walk, babies judge the goodness and badness of others’ actions; feel empathy and compassion; act to soothe those in distress; and have a rudimentary sense of justice. Still, this innate morality is limited, sometimes tragically. We are naturally hostile to strangers, prone to parochialism and bigotry. Bringing together insights from psychology, behavioral economics, evolutionary biology, and philosophy, Bloom explores how we have come to surpass these limitations. Along the way, he examines the morality of chimpanzees, violent psychopaths, religious extremists, and Ivy League professors, and explores our often puzzling moral feelings about sex, politics, religion, and race. In his analysis of the morality of children and adults, Bloom rejects the fashionable view that our moral decisions are driven mainly by gut feelings and unconscious biases. Just as reason has driven our great scientific discoveries, he argues, it is reason and deliberation that makes possible our moral discoveries, such as the wrongness of slavery. Ultimately, it is through our imagination, our compassion, and our uniquely human capacity for rational thought that we can transcend the primitive sense of morality we were born with, becoming more than just babies. Paul Bloom has a gift for bringing abstract ideas to life, moving seamlessly from Darwin, Herodotus, and Adam Smith to The Princess Bride, Hannibal Lecter, and Louis C.K. Vivid, witty, and intellectually probing, Just Babies offers a radical new perspective on our moral lives.

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781429996754

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The Science of Good and Evil by Michael Shermer Pdf

From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us to eat) or why sex is enjoyable (to motivate us to procreate), they are now searching for the very nature of humanity. In The Science of Good and Evil, science historian Michael Shermer explores how humans evolved from social primates to moral primates; how and why morality motivates the human animal; and how the foundation of moral principles can be built upon empirical evidence. Along the way he explains the implications of scientific findings for fate and free will, the existence of pure good and pure evil, and the development of early moral sentiments among the first humans. As he closes the divide between science and morality, Shermer draws on stories from the Yanamamö, infamously known as the "fierce people" of the tropical rain forest, to the Stanford studies on jailers' behavior in prisons. The Science of Good and Evil is ultimately a profound look at the moral animal, belief, and the scientific pursuit of truth.

Author : Soman Chainani
Publisher : HarperCollins Children's Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0008587787

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The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani Pdf

Author : John Deathridge
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520254534

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Wagner Beyond Good and Evil by John Deathridge Pdf

"This collection provides us with that rarest of objects: a genuinely new book on Wagner. Virtually every page offers fresh perspectives, some of them mined from the most unlikely of sources; indeed, the sheer eclecticism of the book, its willingness to range widely and irreverently through both popular and elite culture, is one of its greatest strengths."—Roger Parker, author of Remaking the Song: Operatic Visions and Revisions from Handel to Berio "John Deathridge is one of the most authoritative, widely-regarded Wagner scholars around in any language. Few can match his command of scholarship and primary sources, and no one else knows how to put them to such clever, provocative uses. In addition, Deathridge enjoys an impressive range of critical, historical, and literary reference. The writing is consistently lively and engaging. The collection will provide a welcome change of diet for those tired of the usual Wagnerian fare. This is a welcome contribution, indeed."—Thomas Grey, author of Wagner's Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts

Author : Maudemarie Clark,David Dudrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521790413

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The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil by Maudemarie Clark,David Dudrick Pdf

This book presents a provocative new interpretation of what is arguably Nietzsche's most important and most difficult work, Beyond Good and Evil.

Author : Russ Shafer-Landau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195168739

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Whatever Happened to Good and Evil? by Russ Shafer-Landau Pdf

This is a brief introduction to ethics, with a point of view. The book addresses "meta-ethical" questions that go beyond what most introductory ethics books address, which are "normative" theories (egoism, utilitarianism, etc.) and "applied" ethics (abortion, capital punishment, etc.).

Author : William G. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Devil
ISBN : 087542273X

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Between Good & Evil by William G. Gray Pdf

Learn how you can deal constructively with the forces of darkness through a step-by-step technique to convert negative energies into positive spiritual light. This book contains an updated, practical version of the medieval ritual of Abra-Melin.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 066426395X

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The Genesis of Good and Evil by Mark S. Smith Pdf

For centuries, the Garden of Eden story has been a cornerstone for the Christian doctrine of the Fall and original sin. In recent years, many scholars have disputed this understanding of Genesis 3 because it has no words for sin, transgression, disobedience, or punishment. Instead, it is about how the human condition came about. Yet the picture is not so simple. The Genesis of Good and Evil examines how the idea of the Fall developed in Jewish tradition on the eve of Christianity. In the end, the Garden of Eden is a rich study of humans in relation to God that leaves open many questions. One such question is, Does Genesis 3, 4, and 6, taken together, support the Christian doctrine of original sin? Smiths well-informed, close reading of these chapters concludes that it does. In this book, he addresses the many mysterious matters of the Garden story and invites readers to explore questions of their own.

Author : Captain Adiari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0639998003

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The Great Conflict (Between Good and Evil) by Captain Adiari Pdf

- Do you know that humans are not the first dwellers on earth?- Have you wondered why less than 10 percent of humans ever actualise their heart desires?- Do you know why good people suffer?Whether you realise it or not, you have been drafted into an age-old war immediately you were born, and the direction of your life and your final destiny are determined by your knowledge of this war and how to fight through.This book unveils this age-old warfare, the Great Conflict. It takes you on an exciting journey down through history, tracing the origin of the war, its progressive battles, and the interplaying forces. These are not mere fictions but the reality of our existence as you discover this truth vividly captured in the Holy Scriptures of the Bible with scientific proofs.

Author : Eve Forward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1729317782

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Villains by Necessity by Eve Forward Pdf

The war is over, the good guys have triumphed, and, everything is Happily Ever After.... and boring as hell. An assassin, a thief, a sorceress, a dark knight and a druid set forth to ruin everything, in this tongue-in-cheek twist on the traditional fantasy tale.

Author : Tomas Sedlacek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199830619

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Economics of Good and Evil by Tomas Sedlacek Pdf

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy--Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments--and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.