Evil is a problem that will not go away. For some it is an inescapable fact of the human condition. For others "evil" is a term that should only be used to name the most horrible of crimes. Still others think that the worst problem lies with the abuse of the term: using it to vilify a misunderstood enemy. No matter how we approach it, "evil" is a concept that continues to call out for critical reflection. This volume collects the results of a two-year deliberation within the Boston University Institute for Philosophy of Religion lecture series, bringing together scholars of religion,…mehr
Evil is a problem that will not go away. For some it is an inescapable fact of the human condition. For others "evil" is a term that should only be used to name the most horrible of crimes. Still others think that the worst problem lies with the abuse of the term: using it to vilify a misunderstood enemy. No matter how we approach it, "evil" is a concept that continues to call out for critical reflection. This volume collects the results of a two-year deliberation within the Boston University Institute for Philosophy of Religion lecture series, bringing together scholars of religion, literature, and philosophy. Its essays provide a thoughtful, sensitive, and wide-ranging consideration of this challenging problem-and of ways that we might be delivered from it.
M. David Eckel is an Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University, USA, and Director of the Institute for Philosophy of Religion. His publications include Jñanagarbha's Commentary on the Distinction between the Two Truths (1987), To See the Buddha: A Philosopher's Quest for the Meaning of Emptiness (1994), and Understanding Buddhism (2003). Bradley L. Herling is Professor of Religious Studies at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.
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Introduction M. David Eckel (Boston University USA) and Bradley L. Herling (Marymount Manhattan College USA) Part I: Imagining Evil Religiously: East and West 1. Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil Peter Hawkins (Boston University USA) 2. The Three Faces of Satan in Islam Eric Ormsby (McGill University Canada) 3. Evil Motherhood and the Hindu Goddess Kali Rachel Fell McDermott (Barnard College USA) 4. The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden Georges Dreyfus (Williams College USA) 5. Awakening to Satanic Conspiracy: Rosemary's Baby and the Cult Next Door David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire USA) Part II: Contemporary Philosophical Responses to Evil 6. Paul Ricoeur on Evil and Fault Alan Olson (Boston University USA) 7. The Abuse of Evil Richard Bernstein (New School University USA) 8. Evil Reciprocity and Rights Edwin Delattre (Boston University USA) 9. How Banal Is Evil? Manfred Kuehn (Boston University USA) 10. Seeing Darkness Hearing Silence Mark Larrimore (New School University) Part III: Deliver Us From Evil? 11. For Your Own Good: Suffering and Evil in God's Plan According to One Hindu Theologian Francis X. Clooney (Harvard University USA) 12. Can Evil Be Redeemed? Unorthodox Tensions in Eastern Orthodox Theology Kimberley Patton (Harvard University USA) 13. Desire: Between Good and Evil Richard Kearney (Boston College USA) 14. Evil: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst Ana-María Rizzuto (Psychoanalyst)
Introduction M. David Eckel (Boston University USA) and Bradley L. Herling (Marymount Manhattan College USA) Part I: Imagining Evil Religiously: East and West 1. Bottom of the Universe: Dante and Evil Peter Hawkins (Boston University USA) 2. The Three Faces of Satan in Islam Eric Ormsby (McGill University Canada) 3. Evil Motherhood and the Hindu Goddess Kali Rachel Fell McDermott (Barnard College USA) 4. The Predicament of Evil: The Case of Dorje Shukden Georges Dreyfus (Williams College USA) 5. Awakening to Satanic Conspiracy: Rosemary's Baby and the Cult Next Door David Frankfurter (University of New Hampshire USA) Part II: Contemporary Philosophical Responses to Evil 6. Paul Ricoeur on Evil and Fault Alan Olson (Boston University USA) 7. The Abuse of Evil Richard Bernstein (New School University USA) 8. Evil Reciprocity and Rights Edwin Delattre (Boston University USA) 9. How Banal Is Evil? Manfred Kuehn (Boston University USA) 10. Seeing Darkness Hearing Silence Mark Larrimore (New School University) Part III: Deliver Us From Evil? 11. For Your Own Good: Suffering and Evil in God's Plan According to One Hindu Theologian Francis X. Clooney (Harvard University USA) 12. Can Evil Be Redeemed? Unorthodox Tensions in Eastern Orthodox Theology Kimberley Patton (Harvard University USA) 13. Desire: Between Good and Evil Richard Kearney (Boston College USA) 14. Evil: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst Ana-María Rizzuto (Psychoanalyst)
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