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Evil has an ominous connotation that goes beyond badness.
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- Title The Roots of Evil
- Author John Kekes
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 2nd pr
- Pages 278
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-06-15
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780801443688 / 0801443687
- Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.38 x 6.34 x 0.9 in (23.83 x 16.10 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Good and evil
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004023899
- Dewey Decimal Code 170
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Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 261 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it." The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793?94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in…
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