The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 1700-1900 Ce

ISBN-13: 9781032095158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str.

Douglas Hedley

Opis

The fourth volume of The History of Evil explores the key thinkers and themes relating to the question of evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The very idea of ‘evil’ is highly contentious in modern thought and this period was one in which the concept was intensely debated and criticized.

 

Spis treści

Editors and contributors. Series Introduction. Acknowledgments. Introduction, Douglas Hedley. 1. Berkeley on Evil, John Roberts. 2. Voltaire and the Philosophes, Dale Jacquette. 3. Jonathan Edwards, William J. Wainwright. 4. John Wesley on the Origins of Evil, Barry E. Bryant. 5. Hume, Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris. 6. Immanuel Kant on Evil, Autonomy and Grace, Jeanine M. Grenberg. 7. The Deliverance of Evil: Utopia and Evil, Nicole Pohl. 8. Utilitarianism and Evil, Geoffrey Scarre. 9. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Paul Redding. 10. Evil in Schelling and Schopenhauer, Alistair Welchman. 11. Charles Darwin and the Problem of Evil, Michael Ruse. 12. Ludwig Feuerbach, Dan Yim. 13. Søren Kierkegaard, Anthony Rudd. 14. Evil in the Philosophy of Karl Marx, William L. McBride. 15. Dostoevsky, George Pattison. 16. Friedrich Nietzsche and the Genealogy of Evil, David Booth. 17. Is Colonialism Evil? David A. Hoekema. 18. Evil and the Nineteenth Century Idealists, Leslie Armour. 19. Positivism, Mike Gane, 20. Famine, Jonathan Healey. 21. Modern European Racism: Eighteenth Century Views of Race, Julie K. Ward. 22. Representations, Jil Evans and Charles Taliaferro.

O autorze

Douglas Hedley is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Chad Meister is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Bethel College, USA.

Charles Taliaferro is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at St Olaf College, USA.