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ded_maxim ([personal profile] ded_maxim) wrote2006-12-25 11:58 pm

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.

Уже получил посылку из Амазона. Будем читать.

[identity profile] ygam.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
What's there to doubt about evil?

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».

[identity profile] boriskogan.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
That's a good one. His slave is his heart, right?

[identity profile] ygam.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
The way I see it, the master is passions and the slave is reason. However, nobody knows for sure.

[identity profile] boriskogan.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
flayed alive and blinded,

or blinded and flayed alive and thrown into a dungeon

Хуясе нравы у шумеров были! Прямо как у Саддама.

[identity profile] ygam.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Вообще-то поэма вавилонская; Бродский ошибся. Но да.

[identity profile] ded-maxim.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This is nice. How did you come across it?

[identity profile] ygam.livejournal.com 2006-12-26 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I own a short book of Russian translations of some ancient Mesopotamian texts, including the Dialogue of Pessimism, and I know Joseph Brodsky's oeuvre well enough to be aware that it contains an English translation of same.