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философия и зло
Книга: Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy by Susan Neiman. Автор прослеживает развитие философской мысли от Лейбница до Арендт, исследуя эволюцию представлений о природе зла.
The word "evil" gets thrown around pretty frequently, especially in connection with certain Axes, but Einstein Forum director and former philosophy professor Susan Neiman reminds us that the existence of evil is a theological and intellectual dilemma through modern Western intellectual history in fact, she argues in her erudite and accessible Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, the question of evil is at the heart of modern philosophy. Neiman looks at how philosophers and writers Leibniz and Arendt, Pope and Sade have sought to explain evil, and traces two divergent strains of thought: one that insists we must try to understand moral evil, and another that maintains we must not.
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The word "evil" gets thrown around pretty frequently, especially in connection with certain Axes, but Einstein Forum director and former philosophy professor Susan Neiman reminds us that the existence of evil is a theological and intellectual dilemma through modern Western intellectual history in fact, she argues in her erudite and accessible Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy, the question of evil is at the heart of modern philosophy. Neiman looks at how philosophers and writers Leibniz and Arendt, Pope and Sade have sought to explain evil, and traces two divergent strains of thought: one that insists we must try to understand moral evil, and another that maintains we must not.
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The modern world has seen great advances. It has also seen unprecedented acts of evil: colonialism and imperialism, the Holocaust, World Wars, the nuclear arms race, mass starvation, and the environmental crisis that threatens the very existence of life on this planet. None of these events would be possible without the political, economic, and social structures of a modern society.
How do religious communities react to these new forms of evil? This course is a study of a number of religious thinkers who use the social sciences to understand modern societies and the evil they produce. These same thinkers turn to ancient writings, ideas, values, and practices to address the problem of evil in the modern world and come up with some startling and fascinating suggestions. They find that often their own communities, beliefs, values, and traditional practices often contribute to the problem! They also find sources of wisdom and goodness in their traditions and offer solutions to the evil they see around them. Finally, they make general observations about the nature of the evil in the world and in each one of us.
Ужасно смешно =)
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Is lying de facto evil? Who says so?
I don't know whence comes evil. It's programmed into us, and whether it's by God or evolution depends on which you believe in (if you believe in either, or maybe both...)
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As for whether evil is programmed into us, perhaps. But therein lies one of the problems that the book tries to address: if evil had been programmed into us by God, how can this be reconciled with the idea of God as the source of good? If evil had been programmed into us by evolution, was it a bona fide evolutionary adaptation, or a side product of something else, and how can we overcome it?
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As far as the idea that God as the source of good can't be the source of evil (or what seems evil to us,) it's addressed pretty thoroughly in God's monologue at the end of the book of Job.
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http://www.ashtray.ru/main/texts/2/brodsky_pessimism.htm
«Slave, come to my service!» «Yes, my master. Yes?»
«I feel like doing some evil, eh?»
«Do that, my master. By all means, do some evil.
For how otherwise can you stuff your belly?
How, without doing evil, can you dress yourself warmly?»
«No, slave. I shall do no evil!»
«Evildoers are either killed, or flayed alive and blinded,
or blinded and flayed alive and thrown into a dungeon».
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or blinded and flayed alive and thrown into a dungeon
Хуясе нравы у шумеров были! Прямо как у Саддама.
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Compare with something that one does that only benefits himself - it's useful to him, but it is not a good thing.
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