The Problem of Evil: An Intercultural ExplorationSandra Ann Wawrytko Rodopi, 2000 - 201 pages This book is an intercultural exploration of the full scope of evil. The problems of evil have beset humanity throughout the ages and continue to trouble us. The studies here examine evil in Asian thought, in Western theory, in the cosmic order, in human psychology, and in social practice. Insights are added to the philosophical discussions from religion, culture, history, law, technology, and literature. |
Contents
Good and Evil in Wang Yangmings | 11 |
THREE | 20 |
FOUR | 43 |
The Bad and the Evil in Augustine and Nietzsche | 53 |
SIX Dialogic Morality and a Phenomenology of Evil | 61 |
43 | 88 |
EIGHT Why Evil in This Beautiful World | 91 |
TEN Natural Evil and an Infinite Benevolent Designer | 113 |
Evil in the Workplace | 161 |
SIXTEEN Evil in the Age of EMail | 169 |
SEVENTEEN The Suffering of Children | 179 |
About the Contributors | 187 |
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action Adam Adler argue argument Augustine autonomy auxiliary object beauty benefits bronze serpent Ch'üan shu Christian Chuang Tzu Cleanthes common Confucian consciousness created culture Dabrowski dialogue disorder employee eternal ethical evil exists experience feeling felix culpa forgiveness fortunate fall foundational nature freedom Friedrich Nietzsche Gabriel Marcel God's guilt Heaven Hsün Tzu human nature humankind Ibid individual infinite innocent Insanity Defence Instructions International intimacy/meaning Lao Tzu live logos loneliness lonely Marcel means Mencius mental illness metaphysical mind moral evil Nietzsche norms omnipotent original person phenomenology Philo Philosophy physical political Positive Disintegration possible present principle problem of evil Psychology Psychotherapy psychotic question reality reason recognize redeemed Redemption relation relationships responsibility Sage schizophrenia sense sinner social society suffering Tao Te Ching Taoist theft theory things thought trans understanding University values virtue Wang Yangming Wang Yangming's Wing-tsit Chan York
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Page 2 - Since all men have these four principles in themselves, let them know to give them all their development and completion, and the issue will be like that of fire which has begun to burn, or that of a spring which has begun to find vent. Let them have their complete development, and they will suffice to love and protect all within the four seas. Let them be denied that development, and they will not suffice for a man to serve his parents with.