The Atrocity Paradigm: A Theory of Evil

by Claudia Card

Book Overview

What distinguishes evils from ordinary wrongs? Is hatred a necessarily evil? Are some evils unforgivable? Are there evils we should tolerate? What can make evils hard to recognize? Are evils inevitable? How can we best respond to and live with evils?

Claudia Card offers a secular theory of evil that responds to these questions and more. Evils, according to her theory, have two fundamental components. One component is reasonably foreseeable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195145089
• ISBN13: 9780195145083
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"