Confronting Evils

by Claudia Card

Book Overview

In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521899613
• ISBN13: 9780521899611
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"