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Why evil exists
Charles T. Mathewes
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Presents historical, religious and philosophical explanations for the existence of evil.

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Great Courses
Language
English
Pages
162

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Subjects
Good and evil, Religious aspects, History

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Table of Contents

Lecture 1. The nature and origins of evil
Lecture 2. Enuma elish : evil as cosmic battle
Lecture 3. Greece : tragedy and The Peloponnesian War
Lecture 4. Greek philosophy : human evil and malice
Lecture 5. The Hebrew Bible : human rivalry with God
Lecture 6. The Hebrew Bible : wisdom and the fear of God
Lecture 7. Christian scripture : apocalypse and original sin
Lecture 8. The inevitability of evil : Irenaeus
Lecture 9. Creation, evil, and the fall : Augustine
Lecture 10. Rabbinic Judaism : the evil impulse
Lecture 11. Islam : Iblis the failed, once-glorious being
Lecture 12. On self-deception in evil : scholasticism
Lecture 13. Dante : Hell and the abandonment of hope
Lecture 14. The Reformation : the power of evil within
Lecture 15. Dark politics : Machiavelli on how to be bad
Lecture 16. Hobbes : evil as a social construct
Lecture 17.
Montaigne and Pascal : evil and the self
Lecture 18
Milton : epic evil
Lecture 19. The Enlightenment and its discontents
Lecture 20. Kant : evil at the root of human agency
Lecture 21. Hegel : the slaughter block of history
Lecture 22. Marx : materialism and evil
Lecture 23. The American north and south : holy war
Lecture 24. Nietzsche : considering the language of evil
Lecture 25. Dostoevsky : the demonic in modernity
Lecture 26. Conrad : incomprehensible terror
Lecture 27. Freud : the death drive and the inexplicable
Lecture 28. Camus : the challenge to take evil seriously
Lecture 29. Post-WWII Protestant theology on evil
Lecture 30. Post-WWII Roman Catholic theology on evil
Lecture 31. 16. Post-WWII Jewish thought on evil
Lecture 32. Arendt : the banality of evil
Lecture 33. Life in truth : 20th-century poets on evil
Lecture 34. Science and the empirical study of evil
Lecture 35. The "unnaming" of evil
Lecture 36. Where can hope be found?

Edition Notes

Lecturer: Professor Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia.

Course guidebook to accompany lecture 6810.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-162)

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Chantilly, VA
Series
The great courses. Religion & theology. Judeo-Christianity

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B398.G65 M38 2011

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Pagination
vi, 162 p.
Number of pages
162

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OL30516825M
LCCN
2011279999
OCLC/WorldCat
714845900

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