Naming Evil Judging Evil

Author : Ruth W. Grant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226306742

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Naming Evil, Judging Evil by Ruth W. Grant Pdf

Is it more dangerous to call something evil or not to? This fundamental question deeply divides those who fear that the term oversimplifies grave problems and those who worry that, to effectively address such issues as terrorism and genocide, we must first acknowledge them as evil. Recognizing that the way we approach this dilemma can significantly affect both the harm we suffer and the suffering we inflict, a distinguished group of contributors engages in the debate with this series of timely and original essays. Drawing on Western conceptions of evil from the Middle Ages to the present, these pieces demonstrate that, while it may not be possible to definitively settle moral questions, we are still able—and in fact are obligated—to make moral arguments and judgments. Using a wide variety of approaches, the authors raise tough questions: Why is so much evil perpetrated in the name of good? Could evil ever be eradicated? How can liberal democratic politics help us strike a balance between the need to pass judgment and the need to remain tolerant? Their insightful answers exemplify how the sometimes rarefied worlds of political theory, philosophy, theology, and history can illuminate pressing contemporary concerns.

Author : Bradley B. Burroughs
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978700529

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Christianity, Politics, and the Predicament of Evil by Bradley B. Burroughs Pdf

Christianity, Politics, and the Predicament of Evil overcomes a defining divide in contemporary Protestant political ethics created by two contrasting conceptions of politics. The first, exemplified in the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, construes politics as a matter of statecraft that utilizes the power of government to secure the greatest possible order and justice for society as a whole. The second, most prominently articulated by Stanley Hauerwas, maintains that politics concerns itself with the cultivation of virtue; consequently, it finds not the “well-ordered state” but the church to be the exemplar of politics. Not only illuminating the divide between politics-as-statecraft and politics-as-soulcraft but also redeveloping the conceptual space between them, this book reconceives politics within a theological framework in which the eschatological City of God, rather than the well-ordered state or the faithful church, functions as the paradigm of political life. At the same time, it simultaneously recognizes that the existence of evil, which corrupts individual wills and social structures, inhibits human beings from building the City of God in this world. Analyzing, criticizing, and drawing resources from Niebuhr and Hauerwas, as well as looking beyond to Augustine, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, this book specifies the respective roles of soulcraft and statecraft in a political ethic capable of guiding Christians as they witness to God’s eschatological intention to establish the City of God in a world currently mired in the predicament of evil.

Author : Sharon Anderson-Gold,Pablo Muchnik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139484657

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Kant's Anatomy of Evil by Sharon Anderson-Gold,Pablo Muchnik Pdf

Kant infamously claimed that all human beings, without exception, are evil by nature. This collection of essays critically examines and elucidates what he must have meant by this indictment. It shows the role which evil plays in his overall philosophical project and analyses its relation to individual autonomy. Furthermore, it explores the relevance of Kant's views for understanding contemporary questions such as crimes against humanity and moral reconstruction. Leading scholars in the field engage a wide range of sources from which a distinctly Kantian theory of evil emerges, both subtle and robust, and capable of shedding light on the complex dynamics of human immorality.

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000091519

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Evil in Joint Action by Hans Bernhard Schmid Pdf

Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Exploring the famous ‘Pear Theft’ episode in St Augustine’s Confessions, it looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers when the event is placed in the context of social thought. With attention to Augustine’s lengthy reflections on a seemingly marginal episode, the author contends that it is possible to discern the elements of a convincing account of intentional evil action, the Pear Theft representing a case of joint radical improvisation that lacks collective deliberation. As such, a new perspective emerges on familiar and more intuitive forms of evil in joint action that involve group identification and institutional action. Evil in Joint Action will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory and philosophy with interests in ethics, collective action and concepts of evil.

Author : Robert B. Louden
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199768714

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Kant's Human Being by Robert B. Louden Pdf

In Kant's Human Being, Robert B. Louden continues and deepens avenues of research first initiated in his highly acclaimed book, Kant's Impure Ethics. Drawing on a wide variety of both published and unpublished works spanning all periods of Kant's extensive writing career, Louden here focuses on Kant's under-appreciated empirical work on human nature, with particular attention to the connections between this body of work and his much-discussed ethical theory. Kant repeatedly claimed that the question, "What is the human being" is philosophy's most fundamental question, one that encompasses all others. Louden analyzes and evaluates Kant's own answer to his question, showing how it differs from other accounts of human nature. This collection of twelve essays is divided into three parts. In Part One (Human Virtues), Louden explores the nature and role of virtue in Kant's ethical theory, showing how the conception of human nature behind Kant's virtue theory results in a virtue ethics that is decidedly different from more familiar Aristotelian virtue ethics programs. In Part Two (Ethics and Anthropology), he uncovers the dominant moral message in Kant's anthropological investigations, drawing new connections between Kant's work on human nature and his ethics. Finally, in Part Three (Extensions of Anthropology), Louden explores specific aspects of Kant's theory of human nature developed outside of his anthropology lectures, in his works on religion, geography, education ,and aesthetics, and shows how these writings substantially amplify his account of human beings. Kant's Human Being offers a detailed and multifaceted investigation of the question that Kant held to be the most important of all, and will be of interest not only to philosophers but also to all who are concerned with the study of human nature.

Author : 'Tricia Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725272156

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What Happens to Faith When Christians Get Dementia? by 'Tricia Williams Pdf

What happens to faith when Christians get dementia? Here, the unique voices of Christians who live with this illness bring insight and prompt theological reflection on the profound questions that dementia asks of faith. Within the boundaries of a biblical agenda, these questions are explored using a model of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation (reminiscent of Brueggemann's scheme), to seek deeper understanding of faith experience and practice. Arising from the research, fresh theological insights and challenges for the church call for new, creative practices to enable the faith nurture of disciples of Jesus living with this disease. Counterintuitively, the study reveals a growing, positive experience of faith in the light of dementia highlighting the significance of Christian hope. Faith does not end with diagnosis of this illness.

Author : Margaret Sönser Breen
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042016781

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Minding Evil by Margaret Sönser Breen Pdf

Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.

Author : Christopher Scott McClure
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107153790

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Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity by Christopher Scott McClure Pdf

An original analysis of Hobbes' political and religious thought, arguing that apparent inconsistencies in his work were a rhetorical strategy.

Author : Brian D. McLaren
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310257479

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A Generous Or+hodoxy by Brian D. McLaren Pdf

By celebrating strengths of many traditions in the church (and beyond), this book will seek to communicate a 'generous orthodoxy.'

Author : Chris Provis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415891943

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Individuals, Groups, and Business Ethics by Chris Provis Pdf

This book analyses obligations that arise in our membership of social groups. It considers how to deal with the complex responsibilities we have in our relationships to family, friends and workmates, and how far ethics may ground our commitments to organisations, corporations and countries.

Author : Rev. Birdella Tucker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781462805082

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Do You See What I See by Rev. Birdella Tucker Pdf

Author : Scott Lash
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857029348

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Intensive Culture by Scott Lash Pdf

Contemporary culture, today′s capitalism - our global information society - is ever expanding, is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterised as intensive. This thought provoking, innovative book is dedicated to the study of such intensive culture. Whilst extensive culture is a culture of the same: a culture of fixed equivalence; intensive culture is a culture of difference, of in-equivalence - the singular. Intensities generate what we encounter. They are virtuals or possibilities, always in process and always in movement. We thus live in a culture that is both extensive and intensive. Indeed the more globally stretched and extensive social relations become the more they simultaneously seem to take on this intensity. Ours is a relational world where each intensity ? whether human, technological or biological ? provides a distinct, specific window onto the whole. Lash tracks the emergence and pervasion of this intensive culture in society, religion, philosophy, language, communications, politics and the neo-liberal economy itself. In so doing he redefines the work of Leibniz, Benjamin, Simmel, and Durkheim and inititates the reader into the ontological structures of our contemporary social relations. In the pursuit of intensive culture the reader is taken on an excursion from Karl Marx′s Capital to the ′information theology′ in the science fiction of Philip K. Dick. Diverse, engaging and rich in detail the resulting book will be of interest to all those studying social and cultural theory, sociology, media and communication and cultural studies

Author : Alexander García Düttmann
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780485121612

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Gift of Language by Alexander García Düttmann Pdf

This text focuses on the relevance of the proper name in the conceptions of language and history that inform the thought of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger and Rosenzweig. Their interest in the proper name is because it does not simply operate as a conventional linguistic sign. A specific experience of the Jewish religious tradition (Adorno, Benjamin, Rosenzweig) and a vision of poetry resulting from the reading of Hoelderlin (Heidegger) lead to the idea of an absolute singularity, it is a singularity that resists all conceptual identificaiton and the proper name expresses this singularity in language. In this analysis, history is conceived as a movement that both betrays and tends towards the absolute singularity that manifests itself in the unsayable, i.e. in the name of God, or in poetical language. questions of gesture, translation and melancholia and the moment of apparition in the work of art are comprehensible within Dr Duttmann's discussion, which should be of interest to students of language, philosophy and theology.

Author : Derek James Stewart
Publisher : American Academic Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631818301

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The Armstrongs by Derek James Stewart Pdf

The Armstrongs were the number one “Riding” family on the Anglo/Scots Border during the 16th century. They were the most destructive of the Border reivers... and can arguably be called Britain’s worst ever family. The book follows two narratives... The first delves into the history of the Armstrongs; origins, where they lived, their society and how they survived across a violent frontier... The second narrative is a gazetteer of family biographies – A who’s who of raiders and marauders based on court cases and criminal trials. Tales of ransom, murder, arson, blackmail and theft are explored, drawing out the family’s story during this unique period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066180426

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American Book Publishing Record by Anonim Pdf