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Facing Evil
John Kekes
Paperback - $67.95
Arguing that the prevalence of evil presents a fundamental problem for our secular sensibility, John Kekes develops a conception of character-morality as a response. He shows that the main sources of evil are habitual, unchosen actions produced by ou ...
The Roots of Evil
John Kekes
Paperback - $44.95
Uses case studies of evil, the most serious of our moral Problems, to explain why people act with cruelty, greed, prejudice and fanatacism.
The Wisdom of Kierkegaard Vol. I : Fear and Trembling, Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, Sickness Unto Death
Soren Kierkegaard
Hardcover - $54.95
Narrating Evil : A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment
Maria Pia Lara
Hardcover - $69.95
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In "Narrating Evil," Mara Pa Lara explores what has chang ...
The Press, the Pulpit and the Stage
J. H. McVicker
Paperback - $29.95
A lecture delivered at Central Music Hall, Chicago on November 28, 1882. The subject matter of this lecture is that in modern civilization the press, the pulpit and the stage are the three great powers for good and evil. While the author thinks it is ...
Wickedness : A Philosophical Essay
Mary Midgley
Paperback - $29.95
To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture. Here Mary Midgley does so, with her customary brilliance and clarity. In "Wickedness" she sets out to delineate not so much the nature of wickedness as its actual "sources," Midgle ...
The Root of All Evil : An Exposition of Prejudice, Fundamentalism and Gender Imbalance
Sharon G. Mijares
Paperback - $62.95
'What force prompts human beings to destroy other people, nations and our environment -- ignoring the results and knowledge gleaned from thousands of years of evolution?' This volume explores that question, with which it opens. The book is the produc ...