Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition

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Charting a sweeping history of evil within the Western philosophical tradition, Gavin Rae shows that the problem of evil – as a conceptual problem – came to the fore with the rise of monotheism. Rae traces the problem of evil from early and Medieval Christian philosophy to modern philosophy, German Idealism, post-structuralism and contemporary analytic philosophy and secularisation. Evil in the Western Philosophical Tradition Copyright Contents Preface Introduction PART I THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 1 The Rise of the Problem of Evil 2 Augustine, Free Will, and Evil 3 Aquinas, Privation, and Original Sin 4 Descartes and the Evil of Error 5 Leibniz and Theodicy: Evil as the Good PART II FROM AUTONOMOUS REASON TO HISTORY 6 Kant on Radical Evil 7 Schelling and the Metaphysics of Evil 8 Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil PART III SOCIALISATION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS 9 Arendt on Evil: From the Radical to the Banal 10 Lacan and the Symbolic Function of Evil 11 Castoriadis: Evil and the Social Imaginary PART IV THE SUBJECTS OF EVIL 12 The Perpetrators of Evil 13 Remembering the Victims Conclusion Bibliography Index