Why do humans do evil? Is evil a spiritual or a cosmic problem? Why, in the end, does evil exist? Discover the answer to these and other provocative questions in <strong>Why Evil Exists</strong>.
Topics Covered:
Topics Covered:
- By This Professor
- 01: The Nature and Origins of Evil
- 02: "Enuma Elish"—Evil as Cosmic Battle
- 03: Greece—Tragedy and "The Peloponnesian War"
- 04: Greek Philosophy—Human Evil and Malice
- 05: The Hebrew Bible—Human Rivalry with God
- 06: The Hebrew Bible—Wisdom and the Fear of God
- 07: Christian Scripture—Apocalypse and Original Sin
- 08: The Inevitability of Evil—Irenaeus
- 09: Creation, Evil, and the Fall—Augustine
- 10: Rabbinic Judaism—The Evil Impulse
- 11: Islam—Iblis the Failed, Once-Glorious Being
- 12: On Self-Deception in Evil—Scholasticism
- 13: Dante—Hell and the Abandonment of Hope
- 14: The Reformation—The Power of Evil Within
- 15: Dark Politics—Machiavelli on How to Be Bad
- 16: Hobbes—Evil as a Social Construct
- 17: Montaigne and Pascal—Evil and the Self
- 18: Milton—Epic Evil
- 19: The Enlightenment and Its Discontents
- 20: Kant—Evil at the Root of Human Agency
- 21: Hegel—The Slaughter Block of History
- 22: Marx—Materialism and Evil
- 23: The American North and South—Holy War
- 24: Nietzsche—Considering the Language of Evil
- 25: Dostoevsky—The Demonic in Modernity
- 26: Conrad—Incomprehensible Terror
- 27: Freud—The Death Drive and the Inexplicable
- 28: Camus—The Challenge to Take Evil Seriously
- 29: Post-WWII Protestant Theology on Evil
- 30: Post-WWII Roman Catholic Theology on Evil
- 31: Post-WWII Jewish Thought on Evil
- 32: Arendt—The Banality of Evil
- 33: Life in Truth—20th-Century Poets on Evil
- 34: Science and the Empirical Study of Evil
- 35: The "Unnaming" of Evil
