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.

Уже получил посылку из Амазона. Будем читать.

Comments

[alexakarpov.livejournal.com]

У нас в университете целый курс есть - Evil, aka RS (Religious Studies) 100L

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 =)

[boriskogan.livejournal.com]

It's not hard to understand moral evil, it being an inextricable part of all of us; not any harder than to understand moral good, anyway.

[spamsink.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they say about the relation of "evil" and "harm". As far as I am concerned, harmless actions cannot be evil.