The Problem of Evil: An Intercultural Exploration

Foreword. Sandra A. WAWRYTKO: IntroductionPART 1 EVIL IN ASIAN THOUGHTONE Thaddeus T'UI-CHIEH HANG: Understanding Evil in the Philosophies of Mencius, Hsün Tzu, and Lao Tzu.TWO Lloyd A. SCIBAN: Good and Evil in Wang Yangming's Concept of Human NatureTHREE Sandra A. WAWRYTKO: The Problem of the Problem of Evil: A Taoist ResponsePART 2 WESTERN THEORIES OF EVILFOUR Pierre MASSON: Augustine and the Problem of EvilFIVE David GOICOECHEA: The Bad and the Evil in Augustine and NietzscheSIX Vincent J. FERRARA: Dialogic Morality and a Phenomenology of EvilSEVEN Victor YELVERTON HAINES: Drawing Evil with a Happy Face: The Iconography of the Felix Culpa Part 3 EVIL AND COSMIC ORDEREIGHT Mary-Rose BARRAL: Why Evil in This Beautiful WorldNINE Hedwig RASKOB: Original Sin or Verkehrte Welt: The Reversal of Natural OrderTEN Stanley TWEYMAN: Natural Evil and an Infinite Benevolent DesignerPart 4 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EVILELEVEN David ALETHEA: Reflections on the Effects of Exposure to Evil: A Transpersonal PerspectiveTWELVE Christopher B. GRAY: Mental Illness, Responsibility, and Liability: Positive Disintegration, Individual Psychology, and the Insanity DefenseTHIRTEEN William J. MASSICOTTE: The Auxiliary Object as a Marker of Omnipotence: A Psychoanalytical ViewFOURTEEN John G. McGRAW: Loneliness: The First of All EvilsPart 5 THE PRACTICE OF EVILFIFTEEN Richard L. AKINS: The Phantom Employee: Evil in the WorkplaceSIXTEEN Hans GUGGENHEIM: Evil in the Age of E-MailSEVENTEEN Thomas A. BAKER: The Suffering of ChildrenEIGHTEEN Guillermine de LACOSTE: The Mystery of Evil in Gabriel Marcel's % ??Le Chemin de Crête and % ??Le Signe de la Croix About the ContributorsIndex