философия и зло

[ded_maxim]

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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Comments

[ded-maxim.livejournal.com]

We'll see. On the other hand, can there be an abstract definition of harm (or harmlessness), detached from concrete circumstances? I don't think so.

[spamsink.livejournal.com]

Unlike "evil", to claim that an action causes harm, one has to show the object of that harm and to demonstrate at least an effect on the object. No object, no harm. No effect, no harm.

[ded-maxim.livejournal.com]

Your proposed definition equates effect with direct causation. However in complex systems, which human societies necessarily are, effects often propagate indirectly and with delays. Certain kinds of harm (such as psychological or emotional) are not easy to spot at first, but may have significant effects later on.

[spamsink.livejournal.com]

If the objective nature of the harm can be proved, then I'm OK with it. Otherwise I tend to consider such kinds of harm self-inflicted.