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S'està carregant… Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective (edició 2020)de Luke Russell (Autor), James Cameron Stewart (Reader)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. this has so much potential to be so good, but it was just meh, at best. there is interesting stuff in here for sure, and i think this would probably be a really good philosophy class in college where these topics can be discussed and dissected. (in fact, i think the author is a professor and i suspect that he teaches this class and people have told him it's so interesting that he should write a book. but it turns out that it doesn't translate very well into that format.) the problem is just that - the format. it wouldn't work as a class if it was just a lecture with no opportunity to think of examples and spar with ideas. to introduce a basic concept and then to delve more deeply into it. this is a good discussion class topic, but as a lecture i wouldn't like it, and as a lecture masquerading as a book i didn't like it either. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word 'evil'. The 9/11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures their victims is not merely a bad person. They are evil. And as the Holocaust showed us, we must remain vigilant against the threat of evil. But what exactly is it? If we use the word 'evil', are we buying into a naive Manichean worldview, in which two cosmic forces of good and evil are pitted against one another? Are we guilty of demonizing our enemies? How does 'evil' go beyond what is merely bad or wrong? This book explores the answers that philosophers have offered to these questions. Luke Russell discusses why some philosophers think that evil is a myth or a fantasy, while others think that evil is real, and is a concept that plays an important role in contemporary secular morality. Along the way he asks whether evil is always horrific and incomprehensible, or if it can be banal. Considering if there is a special psychological hallmark that sets the evildoers apart from the rest of us, Russell also engages with ongoing discussions over psychopathy and empathy, analysing the psychology behind evildoing. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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