Evil in Modern Thought
Evil in Modern Thought Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.…
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Evil in Modern Thought
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil.
In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it.Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: Can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer?
Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or
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