Evil
A Very Short Introduction
$20.13
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2023
Summary
Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
We regularly encounter appalling wrongdoing, with the media offering a depressing parade of violent assault, rape, and murder. Yet sometimes even the cynical and world-weary amongst us are taken aback. Sometimes we confront a crime so terrible, so horrendous, so deeply wrong, that we reach for the word ‘evil’. The 9⁄11 terrorist attacks were not merely wrong, but evil. A serial killer who tortures his victims is not merely a bad person. He is evil. And as t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198819271 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198819277 |
| Author: | Luke Russell |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 104g |
| Dimensions: | 175mm x 113mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
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This is a stark, unequivocal position that forces us to think about where the margin of our ethical relationship with other people lies. But as Russell makes clear from the beginning, evil is by its nature extreme, and it calls us to think about it in the extremity. * Eoghan Smith, Society *
About The Author
Luke Russell
Luke Russell is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he teaches ethics and critical thinking. Luke has written on various topics in the field of moral philosophy, including evil, forgiveness, virtue, and vice, and is the author of Evil: A Philosophical Investigation (OUP, 2014).
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