Evil: A Challenge To Philosophy And Theology - Couverture souple

Ricoeur, Paul

 
9780826494764: Evil: A Challenge To Philosophy And Theology
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0826494765 ISBN 13 : 9780826494764
Editeur : Continuum, 2007

Synopsis

Where does evil come from? How is it that we do evil? This book falls into three parts. The first part deals with the magnitude and complexity of the problem of evil from a phenomenological perspective. The second part investigates the levels of speculation on the origin and nature of evil. The third discusses thinking, acting and feeling in connection with evil. The discussion runs in the classic intellectual tradition from Augustine, through Hegel, Leibnitz, Kant, and Nietzsche. But the voice is always that of Paul Ricoeur himself, though he also refers to modern writers like Harold Kushner (When Bad Things Happen to Good People) and John K. Roth (Encountering Evil). Ricoeur considers here man's vulnerability to evil with depth and matchless sensitivity.

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À propos de l'auteur

Paul Ricoeur was a leading French thinker best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutic interpretation. His first major work was Philosophy of Will published in the UK in 1980. Other translated works include The Symbolization of Evil and The Conflict of Interpretations. Born in 1913 he was a professor at Nanterre and Strasbourg. In 2004, he was awarded the second John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Human Sciences (shared with Jaroslav Pelikan). Ricoeur died in 2005.

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Éditeur
Continuum
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826494765
ISBN 13 
9780826494764
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
2
Nombre de pages
78
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