The Best Of Evil

Author : Michael H. Stone, MD
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781633883369

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The Anatomy of Evil by Michael H. Stone, MD Pdf

FROM NARCISSISM TO AGGRESSION, AN ORIGINAL LOOK AT THE PERSONALITY TRAITS AND BEHAVIORS THAT CONSTITUTE EVIL In this groundbreaking book, renowned psychiatrist Michael H. Stone explores the concept and reality of evil from a new perspective. In an in-depth discussion of the personality traits and behaviors that constitute evil across a wide spectrum, Dr. Stone takes a clarifying scientific approach to a topic that for centuries has been inadequately explained by religious doctrines. Stone has created a 22-level hierarchy of evil behavior, which loosely reflects the structure of Dante's Inferno. Basing his analysis on the detailed biographies of more than 600 violent criminals, he traces two salient personality traits that run the gamut from those who commit crimes of passion to perpetrators of sadistic torture and murder. One trait is narcissism, as exhibited in people who are so self-centered that they have little or no ability to care about their victims. The other is aggression, the use of power over another person to inflict humiliation, suffering, and death. What do psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience tell us about the minds of those whose actions could be described as evil? And what will that mean for the rest of us? Stone discusses how an increased understanding of the causes of evil will affect the justice system. He predicts a day when certain persons can safely be declared salvageable and restored to society and when early signs of violence in children may be corrected before potentially dangerous patterns become entrenched.

Author : Bruce Langtry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191608148

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God, the Best, and Evil by Bruce Langtry Pdf

God, the Best, and Evil is an original treatment of some longstanding problems about God and his actions towards human beings. First, Bruce Langtry explores some implications of divine omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness for God's providence. In particular, he investigates whether God is in some sense a maximizer. Second, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that are based on the apparent fact that God could have created a better world than this one. Finally, he assesses the strength of objections to the existence of God that focus on the problem of evil. To create a (possible) world is to strongly or weakly actualize it. A world is prime if God can create it, and he cannot create a world better than it. This book's conclusions include the following: (1) If there is at least one prime world, then if God does create some world he will create a prime world. (2) If there are no prime worlds, then it does not follow that God does not exist. Instead, what follows is that if God creates a world he will create one that is good enough, despite the fact that he could create a world which is better. (3) This conclusion does not give rise to a good objection to theism, based on the apparent fact that the actual world is improvable and yet it is not good enough (4) Even if there is a best world, or several equal-best worlds, God cannot create any of them. (5) A good partial theodicy for evil can be provided, appealing to goods bound up with human free will, moral responsibility, and the roles of individuals' own personal traits in shaping their own and other people's lives. The partial theodicy is neutral between Theological Compatibilism and libertarianism. (6) The problem of evil does not provide a very strong objection to the existence of God.

Author : Eric Wilson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307550552

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The Best of Evil by Eric Wilson Pdf

“Spare your soul,” he ranted, “and turn your eyes from greed.…” The tattoos on his arms still reading “Live by the Sword” and “Die by the Sword,” Aramis Black is ready for a fresh start. Determined to set aside his violent tendencies, he opens an espresso shop in Nashville and begins to put his childhood memories behind him. The past isn’t finished with him, though. One ordinary day at the shop, a man is shot before his eyes, speaking dying words to Aramis that are all too familiar. Aramis realizes that his path to freedom will demand forgiveness–forgiveness from God and forgiveness of others. Along the way, he must uncover the conspiracy behind a centuries-old mystery and the shocking truth of his mother’s death. The question remains: Will Aramis be able to conquer his past, or will evil get the best of him?

Author : Julia Shaw
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780385690300

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Evil by Julia Shaw Pdf

An original and scientifically rigorous exploration of the darkest recesses of the human mind. What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is all relative, rooted in our unique cultures. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat or being a banker, others may find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be said to exist at all? In Evil, Dr. Shaw uses case studies from academia, examples from popular culture and anecdotes from everyday life to break down complex information and concepts such as the neuroscience of evil, the psychology of bloodlust and workplace misbehaviour. In grappling with thorny dilemmas--from "Would I kill baby Hitler?" to "Why do I want to murder my spouse?"--Dr. Shaw offers readers a better understanding of the world, ourselves and our Google search histories.

Author : Michael L. Peterson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268100353

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The Problem of Evil by Michael L. Peterson Pdf

Of all the issues in the philosophy of religion, the problem of reconciling belief in God with evil in the world arguably commands more attention than any other. For over two decades, Michael L. Peterson’s The Problem of Evil: Selected Readings has been the most widely recognized and used anthology on the subject. Peterson's expanded and updated second edition retains the key features of the original and presents the main positions and strategies in the latest philosophical literature on the subject. It will remain the most complete introduction to the subject as well as a resource for advanced study. Peterson organizes his selection of classical and contemporary sources into four parts: important statements addressing the problem of evil from great literature and classical philosophy; debates based on the logical, evidential, and existential versions of the problem; major attempts to square God's justice with the presence of evil, such as Augustinian, Irenaean, process, openness, and felix culpa theodicies; and debates on the problem of evil covering such concepts as a best possible world, natural evil and natural laws, gratuitous evil, the skeptical theist defense, and the bearing of biological evolution on the problem. The second edition includes classical excerpts from the book of Job, Voltaire, Dostoevsky, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and Hume, and twenty-five essays that have shaped the contemporary discussion, by J. L. Mackie, Alvin Plantinga, William Rowe, Marilyn Adams, John Hick, William Hasker, Paul Draper, Michael Bergmann, Eleonore Stump, Peter van Inwagen, and numerous others. Whether a professional philosopher, student, or interested layperson, the reader will be able to work through a number of issues related to how evil in the world affects belief in God.

Author : Alex Kava
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460301494

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A Perfect Evil by Alex Kava Pdf

The brutal murders of three young boys paralyze the citizens of Platte City, Nebraska. What's worse is the grim realization that the man recently executed for the crimes was a copycat. When Sheriff Nick Morrelli is called to the scene of another grisly murder, it becomes clear that the real predator is still at large, waiting to kill again. Morrelli understands the urgency of the case terrorizing his community, but it's the experienced eye of FBI criminal profiler Maggie O'Dell that pinpoints the true nature of the evil behind the killings—a revelation made all the more horrific when Morrelli's own nephew goes missing. Maggie understands something else: the killer is enjoying himself, relishing his ability to stay one step ahead of her, making this case more personal by the hour. Because out there, watching, is a killer with a heart of pure and perfect evil.

Author : Erica Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Murder
ISBN : OCLC:733745635

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The Best Of Evil by Erica Wilson Pdf

Author : Luke Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198712480

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Evil by Luke Russell Pdf

When asked to describe wartime atrocities, acts of terrorism, and serial killers, many of us reach for the word evil. But what does it mean to say that an action or a person is evil? Some philosophers have claimed that there is no such thing as evil, and that thinking in terms of evil is simplistic and dangerous. In response to this sceptical challenge, Luke Russell shows that concept of evil has a legitimate place within contemporary secular moral thought. In this book he addresses questions concerning the nature of evil action, such as whether evil actions must be incomprehensible, whether evil actions can be banal, and whether there is a psychological hallmark that distinguishes evils from other wrongs. Russell also explores issues regarding the nature of evil persons, including whether every evil person is an evildoer, whether every evil person is irredeemable, and whether a person could be evil merely in virtue of having evil feelings. The concept of evil is extreme, and is easily misused. Nonetheless, Russell suggests that it has an important role to play when it comes to evaluating and explaining the worst kind of wrongdoing.

Author : Simma Galston Leslie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1425973000

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Evil Vs. Good the Best Man by Simma Galston Leslie Pdf

Author : Tim LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781414334875

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Evil's Edge by Tim LaHaye,Jerry B. Jenkins Pdf

A compilation of books 7-9 in the Left Behind series: The Indwelling--It's the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation. A renowned man is dead, and the world mourns. In heaven, the battle for the ages continues to rage until it spills to earth and hell breaks loose. The Mark--Nicolae Carpathia is back, resurrected and indwelt by the devil himself. Terror comes to the believers in Greece as they are among the first to face a GC loyalty mark application site and its hideous death contraption. Desecration--Believers in Jerusalem must flee or take the mark of the beast. Carpathia has ordered every Morale Monitor armed as he travels along the Via Dolorosa and on to the temple. God inflicts the first Bowl Judgment.

Author : Peter Brian Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317594772

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The Fiction of Evil by Peter Brian Barry Pdf

What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed? Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of literature by Kazuo Ishiguro, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Oscar Wilde alongside classic works of philosophy by Nietzsche and Aristotle. By considering great texts from literature and philosophy, Barry examines whether evil is merely a fiction. The Fiction of Evil explores how the study of literature can contribute to the study of metaphysics and ethics and it is essential reading for those studying the concept of evil or philosophy of literature at undergraduate level.

Author : Li ChenAi
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781649358394

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The Best Little Doctor by Li ChenAi Pdf

Chen Mo, who was the eldest senior brother of the Mysterious Doctor Sect, was kicked down the mountain by his wretched master. He originally thought that he could only set up stalls in the city to treat her illness, but because of fate, he saved the life of the missy and became her personal doctor. From then on, the village met with the water dragon, in the city mixed with the wind and water!

Author : Wallace Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Biography
ISBN : CHI:57801173

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The Hundred Greatest Men by Wallace Wood Pdf

Author : William L. Rowe,Nick Trakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351872812

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William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion by William L. Rowe,Nick Trakakis Pdf

William Rowe is one of the leading thinkers in contemporary philosophy of religion. Although he is best known for his contributions to the problem of evil, he has produced innovative and influential work across a wide array of subjects at the interface between philosophy and religion. He has, for example, written extensively on the existentialist theologian, Paul Tillich, on the challenging problem of divine freedom, and on the traditional arguments in support of the existence of God. His work in these areas is distinguished by its clarity, rigour, originality, and sensitivity towards the claims of his theistic opponents. Indeed, Rowe's work has played a pivotal role in the remarkable revival of analytic philosophy of religion since the 1970s. The present collection brings together for the first time Rowe's most significant contributions to the philosophy of religion. This diverse but representative selection of Rowe's writings will provide students, professional scholars as well as general readers with stimulating and accessible discussions on such topics as the philosophical theology of Paul Tillich, the problem of evil, divine freedom, arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, life after death, and religious pluralism.

Author : James Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780195314564

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Becoming Evil by James Waller Pdf

Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. Social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors which lead ordinary people to commit these acts of evil.