Elizabeth K. Minnich

Evil of Banality

On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking

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Produktbeschreibung

The expanded edition of The Evil of Banality builds on Elizabeth Minnich's tragic yet hopeful explanation of extensive evil, with a new preface, new chapter, and expanded afterword addressing ongoing evils, the paradox of lying, and the importance of developing the thinking without which conscience remains mute.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9798881802905
• Artikelnr.: 71235120

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH K. MINNICH is Distinguished Fellow with the Association of American Colleges & Universities and a professor of moral philosophy at Queens University. Among her publications are The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking and Transforming Knowledge, 2nd Edition.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Expanded Edition: If Not Now, When?
Introduction: What Were They Thinking?
PART I: EVIL-THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
Chapter 1: Truth and Fiction: Camus' The Plague
Chapter 2: Thinking about Not-Thinkingh
Chapter 3: Changing Minds
Chapter 4: Escaping Explanations, Excuses
Chapter 5: Meaning, Truth, Rationality, Knowledge, and Thinking
Chapter 6: Romanticizing Evil
Chapter 7: Intensive Evil, Extensive Evil
Chapter 8: The Ordinary for Good and Ill
PART II: GOODNESS: WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Chapter 9: Phillip Hallie: It Takes a Village
Chapter 10: Preparing for Extensive Goodness?
Chapter 11: Looking for Good Beyond the Village
Chapter 12: The Banality of Goodness?
PART III: FERTILE GROUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE EVIL
Chapter 13: Seeding Prepared Ground
Chapter 14: Large-Scale Enclosures: Meaning Systems
Chapter 15: Physical Enclosures of Bodies, Minds
Chapter 16: Laying out the Strands
Chapter 17: Why Not Lie?
Expanded Afterword: Teaching Thinking
Notes
Bibliography: Sources and Resources
Index
Author Biography